Every production of an artist should be the expression of an adventure of his soul.

We are not the same persons this year as last ; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.

Passion is destructive; if it does not destroy, it dies.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.