All the words I use in my stories can be found in the dictionary-it's just a matter of arranging them into the right sentences.

It's asking a great deal that things should appeal to your reason as well as your sense of the aesthetic. - Of Human Bondage

The end of culture is right living

Perfect is determined in shortened measures of time, not over long periods of time or lifetimes. It would be unnatural.

If nobody spoke unless he had something to say, the human race would very soon lose the use of speech.

The artist can within limits make what he likes of his life... It is only the artist, and maybe the criminal, who can make his own.

We find things beautiful because we recognize them and contrariwise we find things beautiful because their novelty surprises us.