this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

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

Sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.

There is no feeling more comforting and consoling than knowing you are right next to the one you love.

All art is at once surface and symbol.

Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate.