Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

The more I see of life the more I perceive that only through solitary communion with nature can one gain an idea of its richness and meaning.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

In the sex-war, thoughtlessness is a weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female. Both are reciprocally generated, but a woman's desire for revenge outlasts all other emotion. Yet when every unkind word about women has been said, we have still to admit, with Byron, that they are nicer than men. They are more devoted, more unselfish and more emotionally sincere. When the long fuse of cruelty, deceit and revenge is set alight, it is male thoughtlessness which has fired it.

From now on - specialize; never again make any concession to the ninety-nine percent of you which is like everyon else at the expense of the one percent which is unique.