I want the wonder back again, or I shall die.

For God's sake, all of you, say spiteful things about me, then I shall know I mean something to you. Don't say surgaries, or I'm done.

A woman unsatisfied must have luxuries. But a woman who loves a man would sleep on a board

In every great novel, who is the hero all the time? Not any of the characters, but some unnamed and nameless flame behind them all.

The business of art is to reveal the relation between man and his environment.

It is marriage, perhaps, which had given man the best of his freedom, given him his little kingdom of his own within the big kingdom of the state.... It is a true freedom because it is a true fulfilment, for man, woman and children. Do we then want to break marriage? If we do break it, it means we all fall to a far greater extent under the direct sway of the State.

How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.