The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

I intend to judge things for myself; to judge wrongly, I think, is more honorable than not to judge at all.

I have lived too long in foreign parts

I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme.

Until you try, you don't know what you can't do.

She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.

We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.