No fine work can be done without concentration and self-sacrifice and toil and doubt. - Max Beerbohm

I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

She was one of those people who say "I don't know anything about music really, but I know what I like."