Life being all inclusion and confusion, and art being all discrimination and selection, the latter, in search of the hard latent value with which it alone is concerned, sniffs round the mass as instinctively and unerringly as a dog suspicious of some buried bone.

I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say - feel for all you're worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

It takes an endless amount of history to make even a little tradition.

There's no more usual basis of union than mutual misunderstanding.

Make him [the reader] think the evil, make him think it for himself, and you are released from weak specifications.

Women never dine alone. When they dine alone they don't dine.