When I am wicked I am in high spirits.

..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

Art without life is a poor affair.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

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

Life is a predicament which precedes death.