The artist is not a reporter, but a Great Teacher. It is not his business to depict the world as it is, but as it ought to be.

It is surely no mere coincidence that the land of the emancipated and enthroned woman is also the land of canned soup, of canned pork and beans, of whole meals in cans, and of everything else ready made.

Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite.

Dachshund: A half-a-dog high and a dog-and-a-half long.

Popularity--The capacity for listening sympathetically when men boast of their wives and women complain of their husbands.

Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.

For the habitual truth-teller and truth-seeker, indeed, the whole world has very little liking. He is always unpopular.