I Was Too Absorbed To Be Responsive

Even When The East Excited Me Most, Even When I Was Keenly Aware Of Its Superiority To The Broad, Sprawling, Swollen Towns Beyond The Ohio, With Their Interminable Inquisitions Which Only Spared Children And The Very Old-even Then It Had Always For Me A Quality Of Distortion.

Great Art Is The Contempt Of A Great Man For Small Art.

Genius Is The Ability To Put Into Effect What Is On Your Mind.

I Have Never Wished There Was A God To Call On- I Have Often Wished There Was A God To Thank.

And So With The Sunshine And The Great Bursts Of Leaves Growing On The Trees, Just As Things Grow In Fast Movies, I Had That Familiar Conviction That Life Was Beginning Over Again With The Summer.