But no artist, I now realize, can be satisfied with art alone. There is a natural craving for recognition which cannot be gain-said.

At the small table, sitting very upright, was one of the ugliest old ladies he had ever seen. It was an ugliness of distinction - it fascinated rather than repelled.

Is there ever any particular spot where one can put one's finger and say, "It all began that day, at such a time and such a place, with such an incident?

One must make one's own mistakes

how tedious is retirement! You cannot imagine to yourself the monotony with which day comes after day.

There is too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will. I must concede you the Devil. God doesn't really need to punish us, Miss Barton. We're so busy punishing ourselves.

Things go entirely differently from the way you planned them.