Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.

If you can tell stories, create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.

Insensibly he formed the most delightful habit in the world, the habit of reading: he did not know that thus he was providing himself with a refuge from all the distress of life; he did not know either that he was creating for himself an unreal world which would make the real world of every day a source of bitter disappointment.

If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one.

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.

One cannot find peace in work or in pleasure, in the world or in a convent, but only in one's soul.

It is not difficult to be unconventional in the eyes of the world when your unconventionality is but the convention of your set.