The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence.

A marriage of two independent and equally irritable intelligences seems to me reckless to the point of insanity.

Some people's blameless lives are to blame for a good deal.

While time lasts there will always be a future, and that future will hold both good and evil, since the world is made to that mingled pattern.

the heaviest restriction upon the freedom of public opinion is not the official censorship of the Press, but the unofficial censorship by a Press which exists not so much to express opinion as to manufacture it.

Listen, Harriet. I do unterstand. I know you don't want either to give or to take ... You don't want ever again to have to depend for happiness on another person." "That's true. That's the truest thing you ever said." "All right. I can respect that. Only you've got to play the game. Don't force an emotional situation and then blame me for it." "But I don't want any situation. I want to be left in peace.

When cats sat staring into the fire they were thinking out problems.