I want you to try and remember what it was like to have been very young. And particularly the days when you were first in love; when you were like a person sleepwalking, and you didn’t quite see the street you were in, and didn’t quite hear everything that was said to you. You’re just a little bit crazy. Will you remember that, please?

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Many great writers have been extraordinarily awkward in daily exchange, but the greatest give the impression that their style was nursed by the closest attention to colloquial speech.

There is one regard in which bullies show real perception when compared with their victims; it is their silent good-natured pleasure of the moment.