If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.

Will the reader turn the page?

Chamber music -- a conversation between friends.

I speak truth, not so much as I would, but as much as I dare; and I dare a little more, as I grown older.

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual.