Van Wyck Brooks

"As against having beautiful workshops, studios, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day. "

"Nothing is sadder than having worldly standards without worldly means. "

"The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by newspapers and the Bible. "

"The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses. "

"The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man. "