When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.

Marriage is an arrangement by which two people start by getting the best out of each other and often end by getting the worst.

We are closer to the ants than to the butterflies. Very few people can endure much leisure.

Poets and painters are outside the class system, or rather they constitute a special class of their own, like the circus people and the Gypsies.

Every writer and artist wonders what in the world people of other professions can find to live for.

Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures.