Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

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

It is no wonder he wins every game. He has never done a thing in his life exept play games

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

Art is nothing more than the shadow of humanity.

It is altogether an extraordinary growing, swarming, glittering, pushing, chattering, good-natured, cosmopolitan place, and perhaps in some ways the best imitation of Paris that can be found (with a great originality of its own).