Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman.

As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.

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

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

Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.

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