Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

domestic work is the most elementary form of labor. It is suitable for those with the intelligence of rabbits. All it requires is cleanlines, tidiness and quickness - not moral or intellectual qualities at all, but merely the outward and visible signs of health.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

one of Mr. [Thomas] Hardy's ancestors must have married a weeping willow. There are pages and pages in his collected poems which are simply plain narratives in ballad form of how an unenjoyable time was had by all.

I cannot see that art is anything less than a way of making joys perpetual.