The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

When you've told someone that you've left them a legacy the only decent thing to do is to die at once.

Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

If I die prematurely I shall be saved from being bored to death at my own success.

The sinews of art and literature, like those of war, are money.