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

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

... 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.

There is no monster more destructive than the inventive mind that has outstripped philosophy.

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

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

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.