“Biography is the falsest of the arts.”

“unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories”

“He says unloved women have no biographies—they have histories.”

“There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.”

“There's no 'Safety First' in Art.”

“Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.”

“When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death:"Thru Time I'll save my love!" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . .-Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair:"Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon.”