I was made to feel I could do things. If you get this feeling early and can hold it until you're 15, you tend to never lose it.

Hemingway describes literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other.

American art in general... takes to surreal exaggerations and metaphors; but its Puritan work ethic has little use for the playful self-indulgence behind Parisian Surrealism.

irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.

We are cruel enough without meaning to be.

An American in London...cannot but be impressed and charmed by the city. The momumentality of Washington, the thriving business of New York, the antique intimacy of Boston, plus a certain spacious and open feeling reminiscent of Denver and San Francisco-all these he finds combined for his pleasure.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.