Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up.
If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.
To put your life in danger from time to time. . . breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
Writing bridges the inner and outer worlds and connects the paths of action and reflection.
An artist is a person who thinks more than there is to think, feels more than there is to feel, and sees more than there is to see.
Didn't books say that too: that there is always price to pay for happiness?
For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.