Did you ever have a sister? did you?

History is not was, it is.

It is the writer's privilege to help man endure by lifting his heart.

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

A man or a race either if he's any good can survive his past without even needing to escape from it and not because of the high quite often only too rhetorical rhetoric of humanity but for the simple indubitable practical reason of his future: that capacity to survive and absorb and endure and still be steadfast.

People need trouble - a little frustration to sharpen the spirit on, toughen it.

The work never matches the dream of perfection the artist has to start with.