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

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.

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

Nothing is so soothing to our self-esteem as to find our bad traits in our forebears. It seems to absolve us.

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.