People always think the bread of another country is better than their own.
If you don't keep and guard and mature your force, and above all, have time and quiet to perfect your work, you will be writing things not much better than you did five years ago.
Success is less interesting than struggle. There is great pleasure in the effort.
New things are always ugly.
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.
Merely having seen the season change in a country gave one the sense of having been there for a long time.