Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two.

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

To most women art is a form of scandal.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.