“Each generation has something different at which they are all looking.”

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

If you are looking down while you are walking it is better to walk up hill the ground is nearer.

I really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

A writer should write with his eyes and a painter paint with his ears.

You are so afraid of losing your moral sense that you are not willing to take it through anything more dangerous than a mud-puddle.

A very important thing is not to make up your mind that you are any one thing.

A creator is not in advance of his generation but he is the first of his contemporaries to be conscious of what is happening to his generation.

Whoever said money can’t buy happiness didn’t know where to shop.

Action and reaction are equal and opposite.

A creator is so completely contemporary that he has the appearance of being ahead of his generation.

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.

You have to know what you want to get it.

You look ridiculous if you dance, You look ridiculous if you don’t dance So you might as well dance.

I could never be one of two I could never be two in one as married couples do and can, I am but one all one, one and all one, and so I have never been married to any one.