The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

... when we are misunderstood it is always our own fault. What the reader wants most of all is to be able to grasp what we think; but you loftily refuse to comply.

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

... everyone's free to embark on either a great clipper or a little fishing boat. An artist is an explorer who oughtn't to shrink from anything: it doesn't matter whether he goes to the left or the right -- his goal sanctifies all.

I know that I have found fulfillment. I have an object in life, a task ... a passion.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

My strength has not equaled my mad ambition. I have remained obscure; I have done worse -- I have touched success, and allowed it to escape me.