A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

In a free country it is the duty of writers to pay no attention to duty. Only under a dictatorship is literature expected to exhibit an harmonious design or an inspirational tone.

Use the smallest word that does the job.

I arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. This makes it hard to plan the day.

No matter what changes take place in the world, or in me, nothing ever seems to disturb the face of spring.

A writer's style reveals something of his spirit, his habits, his capacites, his bias...it is the Self escaping into the open.

A breezy style is often the work of an egocentric, the person who imagines that everything that pops into his head is of general interest and that uninhibited prose creates high spirits and carries the day.