Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Look for all fancy wordings and get rid of themAvoid all terms and expressions, old or new, that embody affectation.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

Vanity is a static thing. It puts it faith in what it has, and is easily wounded. Pride is active, and satisfied only with what it can do, hence accustomed not to feel small stings.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.