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

I'll read, and then I'll take naps. When I feel sleep coming on, I give in and don't fight it.

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

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

A man who has both feet planted firmly in the air can be safely called a liberal as opposed to the conservative, who has both feet firmly planted in his mouth.

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.

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