Affection is created by habit, community of interests, convenience and the desire of companionship. It is a comfort rather than an exhilaration.

When some incident has shattered the career you’ve mapped out for yourself, a folly, a crime or a misfortune, you mustn’t think you’re down and out. It may be a stroke of luck, and when you look back years later you may say to yourself that you wouldn’t for anything in the world exchange the new life disaster has forced upon you for the dull, humdrum existence you would have led if circumstances hadn’t intervened.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

It is bad enough to know the past; it would be intolerable to know the future.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.

Dying is the most hellishly boresome experience in the world! Particularly when it entails dying of 'natural causes'.