I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

My father ain't in Europe; my father's in a better place than Europe." Winterbourne imagined for a moment that this was the manner in which the child had been taught to intimate that Mr. Miller had been removed to the sphere of celestial reward. But Randolph immediately added, "My father's in Schenectady.

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

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?

To kill a human being is, after all, the least injury you can do him.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.