I hold that the parentheses are by far the most important parts of a non-business letter.

Do come back and draw the ferrets, they are the most lovely noble darlings in the world.

Necessary, forever necessary, to burn out false shames and smelt the heaviest ore of the body into purity.

The words themselves are clean, so are the things to which they apply. But the mind drags in a filthy association, calls up some repulsive emotion. Well, then, cleanse the mind, that is the real job. It is the mind which is the Augean stables, not language.

He who gets nearer the sun is leader, the aristocrat of aristocrats, or he who, like Dostoevsky, gets nearest the moon of our non-being.

I love trying things and discovering how I hate them.

One realm we have never conquered: the pure present.