The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

Why doesn't the past decently bury itself, instead of sitting waiting to be admired by the present?

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

One could laugh at the world better if it didn't mix tender kindliness with its brutality.

Whatever life may be, and whatever horror men have made of it, the world is a lovely place, a magic place, something to marvel over. The world is an amazing place.

The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living.