Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.

If you would shut your door against the children for an hour a day and say: 'Mother is working on her five-act tragedy in blank verse!' you would be surprised how they would respect you. They would probably all become playwrights.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

The imagination needs moodling,--long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.

Science and vivisection make no appeal to a theological idea, much less a political one. You can argue with a theologian or a politician, but doctors are sacrosanct. They know; you do not. Science has its mystique much more powerful than any religion active today.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Try to discover your true, honest, untheoretical self.