Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.

Every artist is an unhappy lover. And unhappy lovers want to tell their story.

Remember that the secret of all learning is patience and that curiosity is not the same thing as a thirst for knowledge.

The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

How different each death is, and yet it leads us into the self-same country, that country which we inhabit so rarely, where we see the worthlessness of what we have long pursued and will so soon return to pursuing.

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.