Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.

Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that it can go.

In the 1920s dramatists attacked their subjects as if the inequities could be resolved. Some of the traditional optimism of America lurked behind most of the early plays. But not now. There is no conviction now that the problem will be solved.

Nobody is fully alive who cannot apply to art as much discrimination and appreciation as he applies to the work by which he earns his living.

After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.