I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

Ideas are, in truth, force.

There were always people to snatch at you, and it would never occur to them that they were eating you up. They did that without tasting.

He valued life and literature equally for the light they threw upon each other; to his mind one implied the other; he was unable to conceive of them apart.

There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.