Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. - William Somerset Maugham

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to.

Art is triumphant when it can use convention as an instrument of its own purpose.

He began to read at haphazard. He entered upon each system with a little thrill of excitement, expecting to find in each some guide by which he could rule his conduct; he felt himself like a traveller in unknown countries and as he pushed forward the enterprise fascinated him; he read emotionally, as other men read pure literature, and his heart leaped as he discovered in noble words what himself had obscurely felt.