Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

What a shame it is for a nation to be developing without a sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.

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

I swear I only want to hear about you, to know what you've been doing. It's a hundred years since we've met-it may be another hundred before we meet again.

Everybody who does anything at all does too much.

Ah, the poverty, the miserable poverty, of any love that lies outside of marriage, of any love that is not a living together, a sharing of all!

Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.