Creativity demands nothing less than all you have. Talent alone is never enough.

There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship, only backward.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

we write as if our lives depended upon it. They do.

Each artist or writer who works in Venice comes to believe that the city yields its most special secret to him or her alone.

The Lives of Great Men are more oft' at variance with their profess'd Phillosophies than consistent with 'em.

I thought of the nameless inventor of the bathtub. I was somehow sure it was a woman. And was the inventor of the bathtub plug a man?