~ Somerset Maugham
"Some of us look for the way in opium and some in God, some of us in whiskey and some in love. It is all the same way and leads nowhither."
~ Somerset Maugham
"I wonder if it matters that what they have aimed at is illusion. Their lives are in themselves beautiful. I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty in which now and then men create out of chaos, the pictures they paint, the music they compose, the books they write, and the lives they lead. Of all the richest in beauty is the beautiful life. That is the perfect work of art."
~ Somerset Maugham