If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

If one is too lazy to think, too vain to do a thing badly, too cowardly to admit it, one will never attain wisdom.

A woman's desire for revenge outlasts all her other emotions.

Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine and salt water, with food, wine and making love and the remorse which is the shadow of that sun.

The Expulsion from Eden is an act of vindictive womanish spite; the Fall of Man, as recounted in the Bible, comes nearer to the Fall of God.