If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.

Every hen thinks she has laid the best egg! Can we not all believe as we choose? But the choice of others - what is that to us? Let them alone.

It is a very dangerous thing to have an idea that you will not practice.

When you know a person particularly well, you cannot escape their ruffled feelings.

artists are exposed to great temptations: their eyes see paradise before their souls have reached it, and that is a great danger.

Our responsibility to ourselves comes first -- because in a sense what one is oneself is the responsibility that one has for others!

When we refuse to accept our limitations, Nature, who is a stern realist, pays us out.