Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
To be an artist is to fail, as no other dare fail, that failure is his world and the shrink from desertion, art and craft, good housekeeping, living.
The essential doesn't change.
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.