No Man Should Ever Publish A Book

The American Mind, Unlike The English, Is Not Formed By Books, But, As Carl Sandburg Once Said To Me, By Newspapers And The Bible.

Genius And Virtue Are To Be More Often Found Clothed In Gray Than In Peacock Bright.

No One Is Fit To Judge A Book Until He Has Rounded Cape Horn In A Sailing Vessel, Until He Has Bumped Into Two Or Three Icebergs, Until He Has Been Lost In The Sands Of The Desert, Until He Has Spent A Few Years In The House Of The Dead.

No One In This Country Has Any Root Anywhere; We Don't Live In America, We Board Here, We Are Like Spiders That Run Over The Surface Of The Water.

A Man Who Has The Courage Of His Platitudes Is Always A Successful Man. The Instructed Man Is Ashamed To Pronounce In An Orphic Manner What Everybody Knows, And Because He Is Silent People Think He Is Making Fun Of Them. They Like A Man Who Expresses Their Own Superficial Thoughts In A Manner That Appears To Be Profound. This Enables Them To Feel That They Are Themselves Profound.