Menfolks listens to somebody because of what he says. Women don't. They don't care what he said. They listens because of what he is.

I would say that music is the easiest means in which to express, but since words are my talent, I must try to express clumsily in words what the pure music would have done better.

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

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

No battle is ever won ... victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

A gentleman can live through anything.

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother with success or getting rich.