The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

The only environment the artist needs is whatever peace, whatever solitude, and whatever pleasure he can get at not too high a cost.

Every man has a different idea of what's beautiful, and it's best to take the gesture, the shadow of the branch, and let the mind create the tree.

Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.

A writer is congenitally unable to tell the truth and that is why we call what he writes fiction.

Riches is nothing in the face of the Lord, for He can see into the heart.

Man knows so little about his fellows. In his eyes all men or women act upon what he believes would motivate him if he were mad enough to do what the other man or woman is doing.