The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

The idea of you is a part of my mind; you influence my likes and dislikes, all my tastes, hundreds of times when I don't realize it. You really are a part of me. In the course of twenty crowded years one parts with many illusions... I did not wish to lose the early ones. Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen again.

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

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

Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.

What was any art but a mould in which to imprison for a moment the shining elusive element which is life itself - life hurrying past us and running away, too strong to stop, too sweet to lose.