If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

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

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

a good oyster cannot please the palate as acutely as a bad one can revolt it, and a good oyster cannot make him who eats it live for ever though a bad one can make him dead for ever.

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

An audience proves its discipline by its capacity for stillness. Those who have never practiced continuous application to an exacting process cannot settle down to simple watching; they must chew gum, they must dig the peel off their oranges, they must shift from foot to foot, from buttock to buttock.