It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.

:you know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

:when you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right:

Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is al…