She had an immense curiosity about life, and was constantly staring and wondering.

Her reputation for reading a great deal hung about her like the cloudy envelope of a goddess in an epic.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

I never did anything in life to anyone's imagination.

The finer natures were those that shone at the larger times.

It's not my fate to give up--I know it can't be.

One never said the things one wanted — one remembered them all an hour afterwards. On the other hand one usually said a lot of things one shouldn't, simply from a sense that one had to say something.

I prefer male enemies to female ones

It’s a beautiful way to put it: Leave the poetry in what you make. When something becomes too polished, it loses its soul. It seems robotic.

Imagination can take you Places....READ

Art criticism everywhere is now at a low ebb, intellectually corrupt, swamped in meaningless jargon, distorted by political correctitudes, anxiously addressed only to other critics and their ilk.

A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.

There is no technique, there is just the way to do it. Now, are we going to measure or are we going to cook?

What a writer wants to do is not what he does.

Love is the life spring of our existence. The more love you give, the happier you feel and the more love you will have within you to give.

Amazing, then, how with that one remark, he made a mortifying situation thirteen times worse.

Anything that's worth anything is complicated.