The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.

A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied

Marriage is the permanent conversation between two people who talk over everything and everyone until death breaks the record.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

No taste is so acquired as that for someone else's quality of mind.

In America every woman has her set of girl-friends; some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who come out together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude.