Passion does not blind. No. Passion is sanity, and the woman you love, she is the only person you will ever really understand.

A critic has no right to the narrowness which is the frequent prerogative of the creative artist.

Human beings have their great chance in the novel.

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wishes to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time.

I won't be protected. I will choose for myself what is ladylike and right. To shield me is an insult.

I seem fated to pass through the world without colliding with it or moving it — and I'm sure I can't tell you whether the fate's good or evil. I don't die — I don't fall in love. And if other people die or fall in love they always do it when I'm just not there.

No man can be an agnostic who has a sense of humour.