It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

Charge less, but charge. Otherwise, you will not be taken seriously, and you do your fellow artists no favours if you undercut the market.

It's not what you want in this life, it's what you get that you have to do with.

People make one happy, not houses? I do not think so. Houses are more to be trusted than people.

It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it is an effort to put anything down on paper. That little you have achieved stares at you at the end of the day, and you know the next morning you will have to scrape it down and start again.

There was no escaping by means of any journey, however adventurous, one took one's problems and sorrows with one.

What is right for one couple is wrong for another. I would say that there are many more important factors to a happy marriage.