I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.

A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time.

This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.