Love dies only when growth stops.

an artist is always seeking revelation.

The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly involved in life. For the writer who goes out to find material for a novel, as a fishermen goes out to sea to fish, will certainly not write a good novel. Life has to be lived thoughtlessly, unconsciously, at full tilt and for no purpose except its own sake before it becomes, eventually, good material for a novel.

At my age the bones are water in the morning until food is given them.

you seem to grieve for what is not so ... and there is no need to let your heart run ahead into evils that may never come.

Men would rather be starving and free than fed in bonds.