Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of guests who submit to them.

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss.

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness and quality.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

[Wishing her mother had named her Beulah:] At least you did not sit on your beulah.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to.