It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

A mother only does her children harm if she makes them the only concern of her life.

A soul is a troublesome possession, and when man developed it he lost the Garden of Eden.

People do tell a writer things that they don't tell others. I don't know why, unless it is that having read one or two of his books they feel on peculiarly intimate terms with him; or it may be that they dramatize themselves and, seeing themselves as it were as characters in a novel, are ready to be as open with him as they imagine the characters of his invention are.

It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.

Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

If truth is a value it is because it is true and not because it is brave to speak it.