There is far too much talk of love and grief benumbing the faculties, turning the hair gray, and destroying a man's interest in his work. Grief has made many a man look younger.
William McFeeThe artist isn't particularly keen on getting a thing done, as you call it. He gets his pleasure out of doing it, playing with it, fooling with it, if you like. The mere completion of it is an incident.
William McFeeThe worldly relations of men and women often form an equation that cancels out without warning when some insignificant factor has been added to either side.
William McFeeIt is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
William McFeePeople don't ever seem to realize that doing what's right, writes no guarantee against misfortune.
William McFeeIt may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.
William McFee