Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.

If I could believe the Quakers banned music because church music is so damn bad, I should view them with approval.

The jargon of sculptors is beyond me. I do not know precisely why I admire a green granite female, apparently pregnant monster with one eye going around a square corner.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.