History is not was, it is.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

An artist is completely amoral in that he will rob, beg, borrow, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.

A gentleman accepts the responsibility of his actions and bears the burden of their consequences.