The subject matter of art is life, life as it actually is; but the function of art is to make life better.

there are many ways of eating, for some eating is living for some eating is dying, for some thinking about ways of eating gives to them the feeling that they have it in them to be alive and to be going on living, to some to think about eating makes them know that death is always waiting that dying is in them.

You look ridiculous if you dance You look ridiculous if you don't dance So you might as well dance.

I am I because my little dog knows me.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

Romance is everything.

More great Americans were failures than they were successes. They mostly spent their lives in not having a buyer for what they had for sale.