Style is something peculiar to one person; it expresses one personality and one only; it cannot be shared.

What I find trying in a country which you do not understand and where you cannot speak, is that you can never be yourself.

not wholly consciously, but not quite unconsciously, as far as I can remember, I determined to fashion my future as a sculptor his marble, and there was in it the same mixture of foresight and the unknown. The thing in the mind of the artist takes its way and imposes its form as it wakens under his hand. And so with life.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

Time is the sea in which men grow, are born, or die.

The only thing for a pacifist to do is to find a substitute for war.

... I cannot think a civilization worth having that does not encourage and enable its subjects to spend something, not extorted by governments but freely given to keep wretchedness at least from the streets they walk through day by day.