"Anyhow, the hole in the donut is..." - Quote by H L Mencken

“The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must feel and comprehend the vast pressure of the creative passion.”

“The only way for a reporter to look at a politician is down.”

“Debussy--A pretty girl with one blue eye and one brown one.”

“Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.”

“You can't have everything. Where would you put it?”

“I'm going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.”

“Carlyle said that how to observe was to look, but I say that it is rather to see, and the more you look the less you will observe.”

“The sidelong glance is what you depend on.”

“...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.”