Writing Is Not An End In Itself

In The 1920s Dramatists Attacked Their Subjects As If The Inequities Could Be Resolved. Some Of The Traditional Optimism Of America Lurked Behind Most Of The Early Plays. But Not Now. There Is No Conviction Now That The Problem Will Be Solved.

The Virtue Of The Camera Is Not The Power It Has To Transform The Photographer Into An Artist, But The Impulse It Gives Him To Keep On Looking.

I Have No Objections To Churches So Long As They Do Not Interfere With God's Work.

Nobody Is Fully Alive Who Cannot Apply To Art As Much Discrimination And Appreciation As He Applies To The Work By Which He Earns His Living.

Materialism Is Decadent And Degenerate Only If The Spirit Of The Nation Has Withered And If Individual People Are So Unimaginative That They Wallow In It.