If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there people - a very few people, but a few novelists are among them - are trying to do this. Every institution and vested interest in against such a search: organized religion, the state, the family in its economic aspect, have nothing to gain, and it is only when outward prohibitions weaken that it can proceed: history conditions it to that extent.

Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its highest. Live in fragments no longer

I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.

For you cannot have gentility without paying for it.

Life is a public performance on the violin, in which you must learn the instrument as you go along.