Habits and customs are a convenience devised for the support of timid natures who dare not allow their souls free play.

You cannot cross the narrow bridge of art carrying all its tools in your hands. Some you must leave behind.

Jealousy ... survives every other passion of mankind.

My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.

You have been in every way all that anyone could be.... If anybody could have saved me it would have been you.

Wat a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! I went in and found the table laden with books. I looked in and sniffed them all. I could not resist carrying this one off and broaching it. I think I could happily live here and read forever.

The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging.