Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

The qualities of a second-rate writer can easily be defined, but a first-rate writer can only be experienced. It is just the thing in him which escapes analysis that makes him first-rate.

Personal hatred and family affection are not incompatible; they often flourish and grow strong together.

Happy people do a great deal for their friends.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without and yet preserve the spirit of the whole - so that all that one has suppressed and cut away is there to the reader's consciousness as much as if it were in type on the page.

Miracles surround us at every turn if we but sharpen our perceptions of them.