When kindness has left people, even for a few moments, we become afraid of them as if their reason had left them. When it has left a place where we have always found it, it is like shipwreck; we drop from security into something malevolent and bottomless.

A work-room should be like an old shoe; no matter how shabby, it's better than a new one.

Give the people a new word and they think they have a new fact.

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

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

Love itself draws on a woman nearly all the bad luck in the world

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