Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

In England and America a beard usually means that its owner would rather be considered venerable than virile; on the continent of Europe it often means that its owner makes a special claim to virility.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

every human activity, whether it be love, philosophy, art, or revolution, is carried on with a special intensity in Paris.