Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible.

The instructed man is ashamed to pronounce in an Orphic manner what everybody knows, and because he is silent people think he is making fun of them.

No one in this country has any root anywhere; we don't live in America, we board here, we are like spiders that run over the surface of the water.

Once you have a point of view all history will back you up.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.