The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

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

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

I think with my right hand.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

The cruelest thing that has happened to Lincoln since he was shot by Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg.

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