Everyone in daily life carries such a heavy mixed burden on his own conscience that he is reluctant to penalize those who have been caught.

It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Life is seldom as unendurable as, to judge by the facts, it logically ought to be.

The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.

In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.

Materialism is decadent and degenerate only if the spirit of the nation has withered and if individual people are so unimaginative that they wallow in it.

Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.