And they talked about the mediocrity of provincial life, so suffocating, so fatal to all noble dreams.

'What an unutterable catastrophe!' The apothecary always had the proper expression ready, whatever the occasion.

'Do you really not know,' he said, 'that there exist souls that are ceaselessly in torment? That are driven now to dreams, now to action, driven from the pures…

Poor little thing! She's gasping for love like a carp on a kitchen table gasping for water.

There was a spirit of ex-empire, this thing of 'things can't be done', whereas in America, I thought there was a spirit of 'can be done!', the pioneer thing. '…

I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.

It seems beyond the comprehension of people that someone can be born to draw comic strips, but I think I was. My ambition from earliest memory was to produce a…