Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

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

Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!

Art requires, above all things, a suppression of self, a subordination of one's self to an idea.

All intimacies are based on differences.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.