The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.
The test of a vocation is the love of the drudgery it involves.
Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations he's only trying on one face after another till he finds his own.
Don't tell your friends their social faults they will cure the fault and never forgive you.
The wretchedness of being rich is that you live with rich people.
The test of enjoyment is the remembrance which it leaves behind.
We need new friends. Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.
How can they say my life isn't a success? Have I not for more than sixty years got enough to eat and escaped being eaten?
Married women are kept women and they are beginning to find it out.