If a man is truly in love, the most beautiful woman in the world couldn't take him away. Maybe for a few days, but not forever.
The golden hour of invention must terminate like other hours, and when the man of genius returns to the cares, the duties, the vexations, and the amusements of life, his companions behold him as one of themselves - the creature of habits and infirmities.
I'm not one of those people who writes a biography or tries to figure out what kind of ice cream the character liked when he was 10.

