I don't want to earn a living. I want to live.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

One's only real life is the life one never leads.

In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer.

A grapefruit is just a lemon that saw an opportunity and took advantage of it.

I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean.

All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself.