However toplofty and idealistic a man may be, he can always rationalize his right to earn money.

She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.

The most durable thing in writing is style. It is a projection of personality and you have to have a personality before you can project it. It is the product of emotion and perception.

The creative artist seems to be almost the only kind of man that you could never meet on neutral ground. You can only meet him as an artist. He sees nothing objectively because his own ego is always in the foreground of every picture

The minute you try to talk business with him he takes the attitude that he is a gentleman and a scholar, and the moment you try to approach him on the level of his moral integrity he starts to talk business.

An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.

The actual writing is what you live for. The rest is something you have to get through in order to arrive at the point.