The novel is the highest example of subtle interrelatedness that man has discovered.

Poe tried alcohol, and any drug he could lay his hands on. He also tried any human being he could lay his hands on.

I know the greatness of Christianity; it is a past greatness.. I live in 1924, and the Christian venture is done.

Nobody can have the soul of me. My mother has had, and nobody can have it again. Nobody can come into my very self again, and breathe me like an atmosphere.

I do esteem individual liberty above everything.

Any novel of importance has a purpose. If only the "purpose" be large enough, and not at outs with the passional inspiration.

It is only when men lose their contact with this eternal life-flame, and become merely personal, things in themselves, instead ofthings kindled in the flame, that the fight between man and woman begins.