I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.

Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.

A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.

No two persons ever read the same book.

Keep going; never stop; sit tight; Read something luminous at night.

Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.