No decent career was ever founded on a public.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now.