1. “Writing is not an end in itself but life transmuted into radiance.”
2. “After each war there is a little less democracy left to save.”
3. “It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge.”
4. “Land was created to provide a place for boats to visit.”
5. “There is no joy so great as that of reporting that a good play has come to town.”
6. “In the ideal sense nothing is uninteresting; there are only uninterested people.”
7. “The evil that men do lies on the front pages of greedy newspapers, but the good is oft interred apathetically inside.”
8. “A perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.”
9. “The cult of nature is a form of patronage by people who have declared their materialistic independence from nature and do not have to struggle with nature every day of their lives.”
10. “Every man with an idea has at least two or three followers.”
11. “Poetry is as vital to thinking as knoledge.”
12. “Real art is illumination, it adds stature to life.”
13. “Don’t be condescending to unskilled labor. Try it for half a day first.”
14. “Good plays drive bad playgoers crazy.”
15. “It seems not to have written. It is the quintessence of life. it is the basic truth.”
