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

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency.

Such is the brutalization of commercial ethics in this country that no one can feel anything more delicate than the velvet touch of a soft buck.

The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous.

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

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

You can always tell a detective on TV. He never takes his hat off.