A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

Forget grammar and think about potatoes

There is no passion more dominant and instinctive in the human spirit than the need of the country to which one belongs.... The time comes when nothing in the world is so important as a breath of one's own particular climate. If it were one's last penny it would be used for that return passage.

A country house is not the same as a house in a country and a hotel in the country is not the same as a hotel in a town but is it in a small town.

I tell you old and young are better than tired middle-aged, nothing is so dead dead-tired, dead every way as middle-aged.

The creator of the new composition in the arts is an outlaw until he is a classic.

Language as a real thing is not imitation either of sounds or colors or emotions it is an intellectual recreation and there is nopossible doubt about it and it is going to go on being that as long as humanity is anything.