Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious.

It is Nature who makes our artists for us, though it may be Art who taught them their right mode of expression.

It is awfully hard work doing nothing.

A good friend will always stab you in the front.