Since the war nothing is so really frightening not the dark not alone in a room or anything on a road or a dog or a moon but two things, yes, indigestion and high places they are frightening.

If things happen all the time you are never nervous. It is when they are not happening that you are nervous.

The artist works by locating the world in himself

I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.

Eating too much meat gives you indigestion and evil thoughts make you eat too much meat.

art is the pulse of a nation.

Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always dominated by an artificial time when he wrote Main Street.... He did not create actual human beings at any time. That is what makes it newspaper. Sinclair Lewis is the typical newspaperman and everything he says is newspaper. The difference between a thinker and a newspaperman is that a thinker enters right into things, a newspaperman is superficial.