I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

Human sympathy has its limits.

In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers.

To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit.