A frenzied passion for art is a canker that devours everything else.

Art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead.

Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

If my books had been any worse I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better I should not have come.