Given two tempers and the time, the ordinary marriage produces anarchy.

It is only in the heart that anything really happens.

O God, let me write books! Please, God, let me write books!

Passion alone could destroy passion. All the thinking in the world could not make so much as a dent in its surface.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

Some women enjoy unhappy love affairs, you know, though I have always felt that they are greatly overrated.

What depresses me is the inevitable way the second rate forges ahead and the deserving is left behind.