You need not see what someone is doing to know if it is his vocation, you have only to watch his eyes: a cook mixing a sauce, a surgeon making a primary incision, a clerk completing a bill of lading wear the same rapt expression, forgetting themselves in a function. How beautiful it is, that eye-on-the-obje ct look.

It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

There are not many English novels which deserve to be called great: Parade's End is one of them.

If we really want to live, we'd better start at once to try.

In addition to English, at least one ancient language, probably Greek or Hebrew, and two modern languages would be required.

The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

All that we are not stares back at what we are.