It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public.

ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.

No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will.

An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory.

The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

If you want to be a grocer, or a general, or a politician, or a judge, you will invariably become it; that is your punishment. If you never know what you want to be, if you live what some might call the dynamic life but what I will call the artistic life, if each day you are unsure of who you are and what you know you will never become anything, and that is your reward.