A sweeping statement is the only statement worth listening to. The critic without faith gives balanced opinions, usually about second-rate writers.

On the stem of memory imaginations blossom.

We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

Macmillan's rejection had left him very downcast... Patrick Swift was invited to peruse the contents and decided that the poems should be published.

It often occurs to me that we love most what makes us miserable. In my opinion the damned are damned because they enjoy being damned.

I dabbled in verse and it became my life

A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

Life is lie, Living is the truth.

Science can neither prove nor disprove Scripture

Everyone has it within his power to say this I am today that I shall be tomorrow.

The labor of women in the house, certainly, enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could; and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.

The love you have for your kids is so overwhelmingly powerful that it alters your perspective. The dark things going on in the world become very poignant and vivid.

The William Morris Agency handled me. In that business, you're only as good as your last picture.

Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion.

Grandiosity lessens as work proceeds.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

All my art is in some way about other art, even if the other art is cartoons.