Reading is a stouthearted activity, disporting courage, keenness, stick-to-it-ness.
To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.
Fortune is beastly - it is only suitable for cows and businessmen.
I will be an artist. I am sure I will. [Vincent Van Gogh]
He had been standing still; for an artist, one of the more painful forms of death.
What we know of others is our personal secret.