We stand or fall by television.

The city is like poetry; it compresses all life, all races and breeds, into a small island and adds music and the accompaniment of internal engines.

I don't know which is more discouraging, literature or chickens.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

Half a man's life is devoted to what he calls improvements, yet the original had some quality which is lost in the process.

Once in everyone's life there is apt to be a period when he is fully awake, instead of half-asleep.