The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

It is nonsense to speak of 'higher' and 'lower' pleasures. To a hungry man it is rightly more important that he eat than that he philosophize.