Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.