People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

With the superciliousness of extreme youth, I put thirty-five as the utmost limit at which a man might fall in love without making a fool of himself.

It does the heart good to look at you.

and he loved her suddenly because she loved him.

We do not write as we want, but as we can.

You know, the Philistines have long since discarded the rack and stake as a means of suppressing the opinions they feared: they've discovered a much more deadly weapon of destruction -- the wisecrack.