It is the spirit of the age to believe that any fact, no matter how suspect, is superior to any imaginative exercise, no matter how true.

It is curious how often one prefers his enemies to his friends.

Despite the warnings of other times, the impetuous and the confident continue their indiscriminate cultivation of weeds at the expense of occasional flowers.

The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men.

It is ironic that a nation that has never experienced a coup d'etat should be so obsessed with the idea of conspiracy.

The American vice is explanation.

[Commercialism is] doing well that which should not be done at all.

There is something about a bureaucrat that does not like a poem.

Teaching has ruined more American novelists than drink.

I'm a born-again atheist.