The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

Skill is less important than awareness.

The artist is a man who finds that the form or shape of things externally corresponds, in some strange way, to the movements of his mental and emotional life.

Effective as perspective is... it becomes a deadening influence on an artist's natural way of seeing things once it is accepted as a system - as a mechanical formula.

Being honest may not get you a lot of friends but it’ll always get you the right ones.

the marriage twists, holds firm, a sailor's knot.

I bought into the myth that you are not complete without romantic love, without a mate. And it can really distract you from your goals. But sometimes you have to take a leap.

Centers of unionism are also the centers of unemployment.

It's no treat being in bed with me.

Never was there a dingier, uglier, less picturesque city than London ... it is really wonderful that so much brick and stone, for centuries together, should have been built up with so poor a result.

I love the idea that all genres can have subsets.

Even if their child is useless, parents will not find them shameful. But if you're an outstanding child, you don't have the right to find your parents shameful.

Everyone feels loss and love and laughter. That's what connects humanity. It's why I love Shakespeare.

I have a very small public.