I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

[W]hen I see men callously and cheerfully denying women the full use of their bodies, while insisting with sobs and howls on the satisfaction of their own, I simply can't find it heroic, or kind, or anything but pretty rotten and feeble.

It is as dangerous for people unaccustomed to handling words and unacquainted with their technique to tinker about with these heavily-charged nuclei of emotional power as it would be for me to burst into a laboratory and play about with a powerful electromagnet or other machine highly charged with electrical force.

Do you find it easy to get drunk on words?" "So easy that, to tell you the truth, I am seldom perfectly sober.

We shall know what things are of overmastering importance when they have overmastered us.

And what do all the great words come to in the end, but that? I love you - I am at rest with you - I have come home.

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.