Being American is, I think, a very difficult thing in art, because all the elements are European.

It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and gristle to testify to its authenticity.

Politics is a thing that only the unsophisticated can really go for.

If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.

Feeling a tremendous rakehell, and not liking myself much for it, and feeling rather a good chap for not liking myself much for it, and not liking myself at all for feeling rather a good chap.

Only a world without love strikes me as instantly and decisively more terrible than one without music.

A bad review may spoil your breakfast, but you shouldn't allow it to spoil your lunch.