Misfortune had made Lily supple instead of hardening her, and a pliable substance is less easy to break than a stiff one.

As the pain that can be told is but half a pain, so the pity that questions has little healing in its touch.

I think I like 'em better like that...divinely dull...just the quiet bearers of their own beauty, like the priestesses in a Panathenaic procession.

Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

Some things are best mended by a break.

The only thing to do is to hug one's friends tight and do one's job.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.