One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among… - Thornton Wilder

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good

Love, though it expends itself in generosity and thoughtfulness, though it gives birth to visions and to great poetry, remains among the sharpest expressions of self-interest. Not until it has passed through a long servitude, through its own self-hatred, through mockery, through great doubts, can it take its place among the loyalties.

The comic spirit is given to us in order that we may analyze, weigh, and clarify things in us which nettle us, or which we are outgrowing, or trying to reshape.