One can't judge till one's forty; before that we're too eager, too hard, too cruel, and in addition much too ignorant.

It's a complex fate, being an American, and one of the responsibilities it entails is fighting against a superstitious valuation of Europe.

I could come back to America..to die..but never, never to live.

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

The only success worth one's powder was success in the line of one's idiosyncrasy... what was talent but the art of being completely whatever one happened to be?

It's time to start living the life you've imagined.

There are two kinds of taste, the taste for emotions of surprise and the taste for emotions of recognition.