What the world most needs today are negative virtues - not minding people, not being huffy, touchy, irritable or revengeful.

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?

If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.

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.

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

Don't be mysterious; there isn't the time.

Human relations are impossible. When they are real they are uncomfortable, and when they are comfortable they are unreal. It was for the journey into solitude that the human soul was created.