Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

A man marries to have a home, but also because he doesn't want to be bothered with sex and all that sort of thing.

He found that it was easy to make a heroic gesture, but hard to abide by its results.

No action is in itself good or bad, but only such according to convention.

It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.

I don't understand anything. Life is so strange. I feel like some one who's lived all his life by a duck-pond and suddenly is shown the sea. It makes me a little breathless, and yet it fills me with elation. I don't want to die, I want to live. I'm beginning to feel a new courage. I feel like one of those old sailors who set sail for undiscovered seas and I think my soul hankers for the unknown.

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.