And then the searchlight which had been turned on the world was turned off again and never for one moment since has there been any light that's stronger than this-kitchen-candle.

Take by surprise and the world gives up resistance.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!

Being a memory play, it is dimly lighted, it is sentimental. It is not realistic.

An artist must believe in himself - Possibly not so passionately as Lawrence - but passionately. Your belief is contagious. Others say - He is vain - but they are affected.