He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, "The very rich are different from you and me." And how someone had said to Julian, "Yes, they have more money."

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

America is the land of wide lawns and narrow minds.

Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do.

Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.

Take a good rest, small bird," he said. "Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish.

Love is infinitely more endurable than hate.