What’s so phony nowadays is all this familiarity. Pretending there isn’t any difference between people —well, like you were saying about minorities, this morning. If you and I are no different, what do we have to give each other? How can we ever be friends?

But seriously, I believe I'm a sort of Ideal Woman, if you know what I mean. I'm the sort of woman who can take men away from their wives, but I could never keep anybody for long. And that's because I'm the type which every man imagines he wants, until he gets me; and then he finds he doesn't really, after all.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.

George smiles to himself, with entire self-satisfaction. Yes, I am crazy, he thinks. That is my secret; my strength.

We live in stirring times- tea-stirring times.

The paternalist is a sentimentalist at heart, and the sentimentalist is always potentially cruel.

Every writer has certain subjects that they write about again and again, and . . . most people's books are just variations on certain themes.