Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.

A play visibly represents pure existing.

I have inherited this burden of superstition and nonsense. I govern innumerable men but must acknowledge that I am governed by birds and thunderclaps

the whole purport of literature...is the notation of the heart. Style is but the faintly contemptible vessel in which the bitter liquid is recommended to the world.