Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

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.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

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

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

There is nothing rarer than a man who can be trusted never to throw away happiness, however eagerly he sometimes grasps it. In history we are as frequently interested in our own doom.

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