There is no more merit in being able to attach a correct description to a picture than in being able to find out what is wrong with a stalled motorcar. In each case it is special knowledge.

Writing is the supreme solace.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

Art, if it is to be reckoned as one of the great values of life, must teach man humility, tolerance, wisdom and magnanimity. The value of art is not beauty, but right action.

The dead look so terribly dead when they're dead.

The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.

No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman.