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

I work whenever I'm let.

words can never get at the truth.

Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is the best light in which to look at anything.

who wants to read about success? It is the early struggle which makes a good story.