“Psychology which explains everything, explains nothing.”

“Any writer overwhelmingly honest about pleasing himself is almost sure to please others.”

“You do not seem to realize that beauty is a liability ratherthanan asset - that in view of the fact that spirit creates formwe are justified in supposingthat you must have brains. For you, a symbol...”

“The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence.”

“If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.”

“Impatience is the mark of independence, not of bondage.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”