More is done by skilful inference than by parading every abstract fact you know and translating the sum-accumulative of your knowledge into the over-accented concrete.

Reticence is a kind of vigour.

It can even approach violence.

The mentally garrulous kill their own inspiration.
Inadequacy loves to lump things and gamble with chance for effective results." He rose, walked over and examined Gladys, touched her contemplatively with the button of his mahl-stick, and listened absently to her responsive purr.

Then, palette still in hand, he sat down opposite Valerie, gazing at her in that detached manner which some mistook for indifference: "There are, I think, two reasons for failure in art," he said, "excess of creative emotion, excess of psychological hair-splitting.