Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.