The worst thing about war is that so many people enjoy it.

Pessimism is the affectation of youth, the reality of age.

Nothingis so ungrateful as a rising generation; yet, if there is any faintest glimmer of light ahead of us in the present, itwas kindled by the intellectual fires that burned long before us.

There is no support so strong as the strength that enables one to stand alone.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

I had no place in any coterie, or in any reciprocal self-advertising. I stood alone. I stood outside. I wanted only to learn. I wanted only to write better.

Cruelty, I truly believe, is the one and only sin.