I revolted from sentimentality, less because it was false than because it was cruel.

I have written chiefly because, though I have often dreaded the necessity, I have found it more painful, in the end, not to write.

There is only one force stronger than selfishness, and that is stupidity.

The hardest thing to believe when you're young is that people will fight to stay in a rut, but not to get out of one.

Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the courage.

Women like to sit down with trouble - as if it were knitting.

What was time itself but the bloom, the sheath enfolding experience? Within time, and with time alone, there was life - the gleam, the quiver, the heartbeat, the immeasurable joy and anguish of being.