My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters - not to talk in armies and nations and numbers - but to track it home.

I can give you a spirit love, I have given you this long, long time; but not embodied passion. See, you are a nun. I have given you what I would give a holy nun...In all our relations no body enters. I do not talk to you through the senses - rather through the spirit. That is why we cannot love in the common sense.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted.

Psychoanalysis is out, under a therapeutic disguise, to do away entirely with the moral faculty in man.

Men are freest when they are most unconscious of freedom. The shout is a rattling of chains, always was.