One remembers horrors, I think, for the rest of one's life, but memories do not always remain so sharp, and with time, and new circumstance, do not affect us so powerfully.

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

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

You can't jump down the stairs in one leap, however much you might wish to, and you even more surely can't jump up it, but one step and then the next and there you are, at the top or the bottom and not a bit out of breath or discomposed.

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

Love has no place in a lawyer's office.