There is immunity in reading, immunity in formal society, in office routine, in the company of old friends and in the giving of officious help to strangers, but there is no sanctuary in one bed from the memory of another. The past with its anguish will break through every defense-line of custom and habit; we must sleep and therefore we must dream.

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.

Longevity is the revenge of talent upon genius.

In youth the life of reason is not in itself sufficient; afterwards the life of emotion, except for short periods, becomes unbearable.

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.

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.