I have the reputation for having read all of Henry James. Which would argue a misspent youth and middle age.

Progress was all right. Only it went on too long.

My drawings have been described as pre-internationalist, meaning that they were finished before the ideas for them had occurred to me. I shall not argue the point.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

Humor does not include sarcasm, invalid irony, sardonicism, innuendo, or any other form of cruelty. When these things are raised to a high point they can become wit, but unlike the French and the English, we have not been much good at wit since the days of Benjamin Franklin.