Commonplaceness, the surrender to the average, that good which is not bad but still the enemy of the best - That is our besetting danger.

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

Neither a work of nature nor one of art we get to know when they have been finished; we must surprise them in the process of beingcreated so as to understand them to some degree.

Oblivion is full of people who allow the opinions of others to overrule their belief in themselves.

Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.

One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it.

Publishers are all cohorts of the devil; there must be a special hell for them somewhere.