It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

No nation has ever produced great art that has not made a high art of cookery, because art appeals primarily to the senses.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Every artist makes himself born. It is very much harder than the other time, and longer.

If [the writer] achieves anything noble, anything enduring, it must be by giving himself absolutely to his material. And this gift of sympathy is his great gift; is the fine thing in him that alone can make his work fine.