Laughter need not be cut out of anything, since it improves everything.

So much has already been written about everything that you can't find out anything about it.

There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.

Most of the faint intimations of immortality of which we are occasionally aware would seem to arise out of Art or the materials of Art.

All men should strive to learn before they die, what they are running from, and to, and why.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Editing should be, especially in the case of old writers, a counselling rather than a collaborating task. The tendency of the writer-editor to collaborate is natural, but he should say to himself, 'How can I help this writer to say it better in his own style?' and avoid 'How can I show him how I would write it, if it were my piece?'