Setting ... is accident. Either a building is part of a place, or it is not. Once that kinship is there, time will only make it stronger.

Artistic growth is, more than it is anything else, a refining of the sense of truthfulness.

Henry Colbert, the miller, always breakfasted with his wife--beyond that he appeared irregularly at the family table.

After all, the supreme virtue in all art is soul, perhaps it is the only thing which gives art a right to be.

The fact that I was a girl never damaged my ambitions to be a pope or an emperor.

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.

Writing ought either to be the manufacture of stories for which there is a market demand - a business as safe and commendable as making soap or breakfast foods - or it should be an art, which is always a search for something for which there is no market demand, something new and untried, where the values are intrinsic and have nothing to do with standardized values.