Every moment is a fresh beginning.

I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say.

The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.

We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.

For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded.

The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards.

I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas.