I would rather regret what I have done than what I have not.

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

The creative writer is usually captive to his next book.

Nervous hands as if the fingers were dripping from them like icicles.

The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new hautmonde in letters and making up the public's mind.

Art transcends war. Art is the language of God and war is the barking of men. Beethoven is bigger than war.

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?