Once upon a time Baltimore was necessary.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.

There is no such thing as a natural sentence but there is such a thing as a natural paragraph and it must be found.

There are two kinds of men and women, those who have in them resisting as their way of winning those who have in them attacking as their way of winning.

The reason why all of us naturally began to live in France is because France has scientific methods, machines and electricity, but does not really believe that these things have anything to do with the real business of living.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.