To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.

I know what you're thinking - that anybody with proper sensitive feelings would rather scrub floors for a living. But I should scrub floors very badly, and I write detective stories rather well. I don't see why proper feelings should prevent me from doing my proper job.

Forgiveness is the one unpardonable sin.

However entrancing it is to wander unchecked through a garden of bright images, are we not enticing your mind from another subject of almost equal importance?

I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

To start with invention is the mark of the fertile mind ... and leads later to the interpretation of experience; to start with the reproduction of experience is the infallible index of a barren invention.

I am better off with vegetables at the bottom of my garden than with all the fairies of the Midsummer Night's Dream.