A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time.

No difference exists between American and European manners. A proletarian from Chicago can be just as Philistine as an English duke.

There is no science without fancy and no art without fact.

It is strange that the tactile sense, which is so infinitely less precious to men than sight, becomes at critical moments our main, if not only, handle to reality.

Only talent interests me in paintings and books. Not general ideas, but the individual contribution.

Turning one's novel into a movie script is rather like making a series of sketches for a painting that has long ago been finished and framed.

My God died young. Theolatry i found Degrading, and its premises, unsound. No free man needs God; but was I free?