Survival is your strength not your shame.

I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster.

He laughed like an irresponsible foetus.

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's childhood beside the big river, which is incommunicable to those people who have not. I consider myself fortunate to have been born here, rather than in Boston, or New York, or London.