They say geniuses mostly have great mothers. They mostly have sad fates.

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

If it be not true to me, What care I how true it be.. Though it be not true to thee, It's gay and gospel truth to me.

Sentimentalism is the working off on yourself of feelings you haven't really got.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink at last, as human psychology.

And then she realized that his presence was the wall, his presence was destroying her. Unless she could break out, she must die most fearfully, walled up in horror. And he was the wall. She must break down the wall. She must break him down before her, the awful obstruction of him who obstructed her life to the last. It must be done, or she must perish most horribly.

But I like the feel of men on things, while they're alive. There's a feel of men about trucks, because they've been handled with men's hands, all of them.