Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

Distance lends enchantment to the view.

Names are not always what they seem.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker.

Make your mark in New York and you are a made man.