Is there not an art, a music, and a stream of words that shalt be life, the acknowledged voice of life?

It is not meant that the artist, in arriving at truth, must follow the way of the scientist, or, in stating it, the way of the philosopher.

Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.

Aesthetic freedom is like free speech; it is, indeed, a form of free speech.

I am quite sure that no friendship yields its true pleasure and nobility of nature without frequent communication, sympathy and service.

Art has a double visage: it looks before and after. Romance is its forward-looking face. The germ of growth is in romanticism. Formalism, on the other hand, consolidates tradition; gleans what has been gained and makes it facile to the hand or the mind; economizes the energy of genius.

A writer is justly called 'universal' when he is understood within the limits of his civilization, though that be bounded by a country or an age.