... the transaction between a writer and the spirit of the age is one of infinite delicacy, and upon a nice arrangement between the two the whole fortune of his works depend.

All artists need a room of their own

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

One wanted, she thought, dipping her brush deliberately, to be on a level with ordinary experience, to feel simply that's a chair, that's a table, and yet at the same time, It's a miracle, it's an ecstasy.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

To make ideas effective, we must be able to fire them off. We must put them into action.

Travelers are much at the mercy of phrases ... vast generalizations formulate in their exposed brains.