The Writer Is Important Only By Dint

The American Mind, Unlike The English, Is Not Formed By Books, But, As Carl Sandburg Once Said To Me, By Newspapers And The Bible.

Earnest People Are Often People Who Habitually Look On The Serious Side Of Things That Have No Serious Side.

The Instructed Man Is Ashamed To Pronounce In An Orphic Manner What Everybody Knows, And Because He Is Silent People Think He Is Making Fun Of Them.

No One In This Country Has Any Root Anywhere; We Don't Live In America, We Board Here, We Are Like Spiders That Run Over The Surface Of The Water.

As Against Having Beautiful Workshops, Studies, Etc., One Writes Best In A Cellar On A Rainy Day.