We work in the dark -- we do what we can -- we give what we have.

I have in my own fashion learned the lesson that life is effort, unremittingly repeated.

I'm yours for ever--for ever and ever. Here I stand; I'm as firm as a rock. If you'll only trust me, how little you'll be disappointed. Be mine as I am yours.

Young men of this class never do anything for themselves that they can get other people to do for them, and it is the infatuation, the devotion, the superstition of others that keeps them going. These others in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred are women.

I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.

That accurst autobiographic form which puts a premium on the loose, the improvised, the cheap, and the easy.