Give me a bed and a book and I am happy.

There are people who, like houses, are beautiful in dilapidation.

All reformers, however strict their social conscience, live in houses just as big as they can pay for.

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.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Style is a magic wand, and turns everything to gold that it touches.

When we say we are certain so-and-so can't possibly have done it, what we mean is that we think he very likely did.