Almost any fool can paint an academy picture, and any imbecile can shoot off a Kodak.

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic -- I mean my motion.

I desired my dust to be mingled with yours Forever and forever and forever.

There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle promise from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the work actually performed.

Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.

In our time, the curse is monetary illiteracy, just as inability to read plain print was the curse of earlier centuries.