From the very nature of progress, all ages must be transitional.

One of the pleasant things those of us who write or paint do is to have the daily miracle. It does come.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

I wish that I was where I am.

The only thing that is different from one time to another is what is seen and what is seen depends upon how everybody is doing everything.

Just before she died she asked, What is the answer? No answer came. She laughed and said, In that case, what is the question? Then she died.

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.