Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart.

Our work can never be better than we are ourselves.

One approaches the journey's end. But the end is a goal, not a catastrophe.

You see what stupid folk my publishers are; but they are all alike.

God has written in the law of nature that when two people are joined in love or friendship, one must always give his heart more perfectly than the other.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.