The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

From the time the Englishman's bones harden into bones at all, he makes his skeleton a flagstaff, and he early plants his feet like one who is to walk the world and the decks of all the seas.

Old men are like that, you know. It makes them feel important to think they are in love with somebody.

I first met Myra Henshawe when I was fifteen, but I had known her about ever since I could remember anything at all.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

A child's attitude toward everything is an artist's attitude.