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.

Their whole life depends on spending money, and now they’ve got none to spend. That’s our civilization and our education: bring up the masses to depend entirely on spending money, and then the money gives out.

Oh build your ship of death. Oh build it! For you will need it. For the voyage of oblivion awaits you.

Never was an age more sentimental, more devoid of real feeling, more exaggerated in false feeling, than our own.

Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

Europe's the mayonnaise all right, but America supplies the good old lobster.

Now man cannot live without some vision of himself. But still less can he live with a vision that is not true to his inner experience and inner feeling.