He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Ever since then I have believed that God is not only a gentleman and a sport; he is a Kentuckian too.

Whatever its symbol - cross or crescent or whatever - that symbol is man's reminder of his duty inside the human race.

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

The poets are wrong of course […] But then poets are almost always wrong about facts. That's because they are not really interested in facts: only in truth: which is why the truth they speak is so true that even those who hate poets by simple and natural instinct are exalted and terrified by it.