"A perfect writer would make words sing,..." - Quote by Walt Whitman

“Old age: The estuary that enlarges and spreads itself grandly as it pours into the Great Sea.”

“I discover myself on the verge of a usual mistake.”

“Give me such shows - give me the streets of Manhattan!”

“I have now a library of nearly nine hundred volumes, over seven hundred of which I wrote myself.”

“I'm happy to be a writer - of prose, poetry, every kind of writing. Every person in the world who isn't a recluse, hermit or mute uses words. I know of no other art form that we always use.”

“The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.”

“Melancholy men, of all others, are the most witty.”

“Art is a higher type of knowledge than experience.”

“rhetoric is will doing the work of imagination.”