Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul. Read Summary
When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character. Read Summary
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. Read Summary
The love that lasts longest is the love that is never returned. Read Summary
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories. Read Summary
The crown of literature is poetry. Read Summary
You can do anything in this world if you are prepared to take the consequences. Read Summary
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. Read Summary
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young. Read Summary
Sentimentality is the only sentiment that rubs you the wrong way. Read Summary
Writing is the supreme solace. Read Summary
Money is the string with which a sardonic destiny directs the motions of its puppets. Read Summary
Tolerance is another word for indifference. Read Summary
When I read a book I seem to read it with my eyes only, but now and then I come across a passage, perhaps only a phrase, which has a meaning for me, and it becomes part of me. Read Summary
Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. Read Summary
There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are. Read Summary
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. Read Summary
Tradition is a guide and not a jailer. Read Summary
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom, and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too. Read Summary
If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts. Read Summary