True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be 'American' before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, & ha…