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

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

All problems are finally scientific problems.

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.