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.

I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures.

London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy.

A mask tells us more than a face.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

What fire does not destroy, it hardens

I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock.