I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dullness alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing.

To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice.

Cynicism is a sure sign of youth.

The attraction of horror is a mental, or even an intellectual, excitement, but the fascination of the repulsive, so noticeable incontemporary writing, can spring openly from some rotted substance within our civilization.

to be honest and yet popular is almost as difficult in literature as it is in life.