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

Thank God, I can look at a sunset now without having to think how to describe it

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams.

Perhaps it would have been possible to see in him a new Prometheus...the hero who for the good of mankind exposes himself to the agonies of the damned...undaunted by failure, by an unceasing effort of courage holding despair at bay, doggedly persistent in the face of self-doubt, which is the artist's bitterest enemy.

Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.