Art is on the side of the oppressed. Think before you shudder at the simplistic dictum and its heretical definition of the freedom of art. For if art is freedom of the spirit, how can it exist within the oppressors?

She wanted, passionately and persistently, two things which she believed should subsist together in any well-ordered life: amusement and respectability.

An education is like a crumbling building that needs constant upkeep with repairs and additions.

The effect produced by a short story depends almost entirely on its form.

When a man says he doesn't understand a woman it's because he won't take the trouble.

No insect hangs its nest on threads as frail as those which will sustain the weight of human vanity.

The short story, free from the longuers of the novel is also exempt from the novel's conclusiveness--too often forced and false: it may thus more nearly than the novel approach aesthetic and moral truth.