If we're always guided by other people's thoughts, what's the point in having our own?

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then—who knows?—rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too.

An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship.

Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways.

America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle.

Freedom, individualism and being yourself so long as you don't hurt another's physical person or property: The true artist is a man who believes absolutely in himself, because he is absolutely himself.