To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art; men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.

A novel must give a sense of permanence as well as a sense of life.

You do care a little for me, I know... but nothing to speak of, and you don't love me. I was yours once till death if you'd cared to keep me, but I'm someone else's now... and he's mine in a way that shocks you, but why don't you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.

The hungry and the homeless don't care about liberty any more than they care about cultural heritage. To pretend that they do care is cant.

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

I distrust Great Men. They produce a desert of uniformity around them and often a pool of blood too, and I always feel a little man's pleasure when they come a cropper.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.