Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

Life is always either; a tight -rope or a feather-bed . — Give me the tightrope.

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.

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