We do not change as we grow up. The difference between the child and the adult is that the former doesn't know who he is and the latter does.

I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that, more often than most people realize, his works may throw light upon his life. An artist with certain imaginative ideas in his head may then involve himself in relationships which are congenial to them.

In the end, art is small beer. The really serious things are earning one's living so as not to be a parasite and loving one's neighbor.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists

Most poetry is the utterance of a man in some state of passion, love, joy, grief, rage, etc., and no doubt this is as it should be. But no man is perpetually in a passion and those states in which he is amused and amusing, detached and irreverent, if less important, are no less amusing. If there were no poets who, like Byron, express these states, Poetry would lack something.

Lay your sleeping head, my love, Human on my faithless arm.

Of all possible subjects, travel is the most difficult for an artist, as it is the easiest for a journalist.