Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can.

There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley.

The day broke grey and dull. The clouds hung heavily, and there was a rawness in the air that suggested snow. A woman servant came into a room in which a child was sleeping and drew the curtains. She glanced mechanically at the house opposite, a stucco house with a portico, and went to the child's bed.

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.

Almost all the people who’ve had the most effect on me I seem to have met by chance, yet looking back it seems as though I couldn’t but have met them.

Life isn't long enough for love and art.

We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.