... the strictness of to-day may have at any moment to be purchased by the laxity of to-morrow.

For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.

The only thing which can keep journalism alive - journalism, which is born of the moment, serves the moment, and, as a rule, dies with the moment - is - again the Stevensonian secret! - charm.

I regard the whole university system as a wretched sham. Knowledge! It has no more to do with knowledge than my boots.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

So as the years draw on toward the Biblical limit, the inclination to look back, and to tell some sort of story of what one has seen, grows upon most of us.

my credo is very short. Its first article is art - and its second is art - and its third is art!