Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

When the guns roar, the arts die.

An era can be said to end when its basic illusions are exhausted.

After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.