Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

We do not choose the day of our birth nor may we choose the day of our death, yet choice is the sovereign faculty of the mind.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

One of the dangers of the American artist is that he finds himself almost exclusively thrown in with persons more or less in the arts. He lives among them, eats among them, quarrels with them, marries them.

If I wasn't an actor, I'd be a secret agent.