The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.

To your generation, I must represent the literary equivalent of tufted furniture and gas chandeliers.

To be able to look life in the face: that's worth living in a garret for, isn't it?

In any really good subject, one has only to probe deep enough to come to tears.

Her vivid smile was like a light held up to dazzle me.

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

Genius is of small use to a woman who does not know how to do her hair.