In love, self-love is always at risk.

If you are going to break a Law of Art, make the crime interesting.

Placing the extraordinary at the center of the ordinary, as realism does, is a great comfort to us stay-at-homes.

The dignified catastrophes of tragedy bear little resemblance to the slow ruin inflicted by life.

The magic of procedure: do this after that and thus before so; then your wish will be granted.

More are weakened than strengthened by their troubles.

The past is always waiting to entangle and deflect us.