I like a view but I like to sit with my back turned to it.

The United States is just now the oldest country in the world, there always is an oldest country and she is it, it is she who is the mother of the twentieth century civilization. She began to feel herself as it just after the Civil War. And so it is a country the right age to have been born in and the wrong age to live in.

Generally speaking anybody is more interesting doing nothing than doing anything.

The thing that differentiates man from animals is money.

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

Silent gratitude isn't very much to anyone.

I am I because my little dog knows me.