It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

To bear failure with courage is the best proof of character that anyone can give.

Some American delusions: 1) That there is no class-consciousness in the country. 2) That American coffee is good. 3) That Americans are business-like. 4) That Americans are highly-sexed and that redheads are more highly sexed than others.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with other men an escape from reality, but the means by which he accedes to it.

Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

I don't think that women ought to sit down at table with men. It ruins conversation and I'm sure it's very bad for them. It puts ideas in their heads, and women are never at ease with themselves when they have ideas.