Only a mediocre person is always at his best. - W. Somerset Maugham

"The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill."

"The only important thing in a book is the meaning that it has for you."

"I can imagine no more comfortable frame of mind for the conduct of life than a humorous resignation."

"Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species."

"We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to."