Blessed are the pure in heart for they have so many more things to talk about.

I was never allowed to read the popular American children's books of my day because, as my mother said, the children spoke bad English without the author's knowing it.

Half the trouble in life is caused by pretending there isn't any.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

...It was one of the great livery-stableman's most masterly intuitions to have discovered that Americans want to get away from amusement even more quickly than they want to get to it.

The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.