Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

Do you ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.

A squalid phantasmagoria of breath

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.