The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

Self-respecting people do not care to peep at their reflections in unexpected mirrors, or to see themselves as others see them.

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best.

The ladies who try to keep their beauty are the ladies who lose it.

The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.