In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility.

In plucking the fruit of memory one runs the risk of spoiling its bloom, especially if it has got to be carried into the market.

An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.

For a time I would feel I belonged still to a world of straightforward facts; but the feeling would not last long. Something would turn up to scare it away.

When one has got to make correct entries, one comes to hate those savages--hate them to the death.

As to honor - you know - it's a very fine mediaeval inheritance which women never got hold of. It wasn't theirs.

All ambitions are lawful except those which climb upward on the miseries or credulities of mankind.