Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.