I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as “cruelty.