Writing, in any sense that matters, cannot be taught. It can only be learned by each separate one of us in his own way, by the use of his own powers of imagination and perception, the ability to learn the lessons he has set for himself.

Trust your happiness and the richness of your life at this moment. It is as true and as much yours as anything else that ever happened to you.

You waste life when you waste good food.

The greatest art comes out of warmth and conviction and deep feeling, but then, very few people, even geniuses, have all that.

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness.

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye and think it is a broken heart.