Doggedness in art is no substitute for inspiration.

If you construct a room in paint, you haunt it. Your life rests in every stroke. So paint only the rooms that you can bear to occupy forever. Or paint the stars instead.

One morning you wake up with more life behind you than in front of you, not being able to understand how it’s happened.

Creativity is an act of defiance.

The farmer works the soil The agriculturist works the farmer.

I don't know what a man is. Only that every man has his price.

Those who understand the true nature of humanity are always loners.

When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them.

A thousand ages in Thy sight Are like an evening gone; Short as the watch that ends the night Before the rising sun.

It is not wise to meddle with D'Angelines in matters of love.

And what you need ironically. Will turn out what you want to be. If you just let it.

This is our world now The world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud.