'Tis not need we know our every thought Or see the work shop where each mask is wrought Wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, Careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit And serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

Compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome.

Artists are the antennae of the race, but the bullet-headed many will never learn to trust the great artists.

Come, let us pity those who are better off than we are. Come, my friend, and remember that the rich have butlers and no friends, And we have friends and no butlers. (excerpt from 'The Garrett')

The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention.