It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

My way of joking is to tell the truth

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change