There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him.

Because sometimes you have to do something bad to do something good.

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

Everybody in American seems in a rush to catch a train.

I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself.

When bankers get together they talk about art. When artists get together, they talk about money.

I walk the world in wonder.