There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Another unsettling element in modern art is that common symptom of immaturity, the dread of doing what has been done before.

... naturalness is not always consonant with taste.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

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?

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.