I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
The critic who justly admires all kinds of things simultaneously cannot love any one of them.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive instinct to accept it. And either of these instincts is so significant of character that one might as well say that mankind is divisible into two great classes: hosts and guests.
When hospitality becomes an art it loses its very soul.
No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt.
All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.
What torture, this life in society! Often someone is obliging enough to offer me a light, and in order to oblige him I have to fish a cigarette out of my pocket.
I do my laundry on a weekly basis.
It is a very difficult job, being the servant of two masters.
We are Godseekers all, though some be churchgoing believers and others pilgrims to an unknown shrine.