Literary men are being employed to praise a big business man personally, as men used to praise a king. They not only find political reasons for the commercial schemes that they have done for some time past they also find moral defences for the commercial schemers... I do resent the whole age of patronage being revived under such absurd patrons; and all poets becoming court poets, under kings that have taken no oath.

A really great person is the person who makes every person feel great.

When you break the big laws, you do not get liberty; you do not even get anarchy. You get the small laws.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

Literature and fiction are two entirely different things. Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity.

Why be something to everybody when you can be everything to somebody?

Morality did not begin by one man saying to another, "I will not hit you if you do not hit me"; there is no trace of such a transaction. There IS a trace of both men having said, "We must not hit each other in the holy place.