Any point of view is interesting that is a direct impression of life. You each have an impression colored by your individual conditions; make that into a picture, a picture framed by your own personal wisdom, your glimpse of the American world.

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

Adjectives are the sugar of literature and adverbs the salt.

Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

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

Nothing, of course, will ever take the place of the good old fashion of 'liking' a work of art or not liking it; the more improved criticism will not abolish that primitive, that ultimate, test.

One of my latest sensations was going to Lady Airlie's to hear Browning read his own poems - with the comport of finding that, at least, if you don't understand them, he himself apparently understands them even less. He read them as if he hated them and would like to bite them to pieces.