All mirrors are magical mirrors, and we never see our faces in them.
What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
You cannot be both fashionable and first-rate
What humbugs we are, who pretend to live for beauty, and never see the dawn!