Life isn't long enough for love and art.

Life is really very fantastic, and one has to have a peculiar sense of humour to see the fun of it. [Virtue]

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

When people say they do not care what others think of them, for the most part they deceive themselves. Generally they mean only that they will do as they choose, in the confidence that no one will know their vagaries; and at the utmost only that they are willing to act contrary to the opinion of the majority because they are supported by the approval of their neighbours. It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.

Beauty is something wonderful and strange that the artist fashions out of the chaos of the world in the torment of his soul.

Writing is a wholetime job: no professional writer can afford only to write when he feels like it.

It takes two to make a love affair and a mans meat is too often a woman's poison.