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

Your road is everything that a road ought to be...and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen path and explore them.

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.

Censorship is telling a man he can't have a steak just because a baby can't chew it.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them.

As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake.