For the mass of men the idea of artistic creation can only be expressed by an idea unpopular in present discussions - the idea of property... Property is merely the art of the democracy... One would think, to hear people talk, that the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers were on the side of property. But obviously they are the enemies of property; because they are enemies of their own limitations.

A good man's work is effected by doing what he does, a woman's by being what she is.

It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

I wish we could sometimes love the characters in real life as we love the characters in romances. There are a great many human souls whom we should accept more kindly, and even appreciate more clearly, if we simply thought of them as people in a story.

Every work of art has one indispensable mark ... the center of it is simple, however much the fulfillment may be complicated.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

A stiff apology is a second insult... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.