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.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.

A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

Many who have spent a lifetime in it can tell us less of love than the child that lost a dog yesterday.