Most of the basic material a writer works with is acquired before the age of fifteen.

There was nothing but land; not a country at all, but the material out of which countries are made.

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

I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.

Loyal? As loyal as anyone who plays second fiddle ever is.

I wondered if the life that was right for one was ever right for two!

The condition every art requires is, not so much freedom from restriction, as freedom from adulteration and from the intrusion of foreign matter.