[U]nless a woman is held, by man, safe within the bounds of belief, she becomes inevitably a destructive force.

You must always be a-waggle with LOVE.

I cannot get any sense of an enemy - only of a disaster.

I am convinced that the majority of people to-day have good, generous feelings which they can never know, never experience, because of some fear, some repression. I do not believe that people would be villains, thieves, murderers and sexual criminals if they were freed from legal restraint.

She wished some help would come from outside. But in the whole world there was no help. Society was terrible because it was insane. Civilized society is insane. Money and so-called love are its two great manias; money a long way first. The individual asserts himself in his disconnected insanity in these two modes: money and love.

God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute.