There is something frank and joyous and young in the open face of the country. It gives itself ungrudgingly to the moods of the season, holding nothing back.

Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.

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

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy; only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

youth, when it is hurt, likes to feel itself betrayed.

The trees and shrubbery seemed well-groomed and social, like pleasant people.

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.