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.

When we see a natural style we are quite amazed and delighted, because we expected to see an author and find a man.

I cannot live without books, but fewer will suffice where amusement, and not use, is the only future object.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

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