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.

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

sentences were used by man before words and still come with the readiness of instinct to his lips. They, and not words, are the foundations of all language. ... Your cat has no words, but it has considerable feeling for the architecture of the sentence in relation to the problem of expressing climax.

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

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

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

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