Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

Wherever humanity has made that hardest of all starts and lifted itself out of mere brutality is a sacred spot.

To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent.

The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.