Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

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

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.