Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it.

The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

The pencil sharpener is about as far as I have ever got in operating a complicated piece of machinery with any success.

Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

Thousands have lived without love, not one without water.

I passionately hate the idea of being with it. I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

I love America. You always hurt the one you love.

Something ignoble, loathsome, undignified attends all associations between people and has been transferred to all objects, dwelling, tools, even the landscape itself.

America: the only country in the world where failing to promote yourself is regarded as being arrogant.