The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

The first-rate mind is always curious, compassionate, original, and pessimistic.

The total history of almost anyone would shock almost everyone.