If we can't stamp out literature in the country, we can at least stop its being brought in from outside.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

She told me later that she had made a kind of note of me in her mind, as, scanning the shelf for a particular book, one will sometimes have one's attention caught by another, take it down, glance at the title page and saying "I must read that, too, when I've the time," replace it and continue the search.

Instead of this absurd division into sexes they ought to class people as static and dynamic.

Saints are simply men & women who have fulfilled their natural obligation which is to approach God.

Manners are especially the need of the plain. The pretty can get away with anything.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.