A pornographic novelist is one who exploits the sexual instinct as a prostitute does. A legitimate sex novel elucidates it or brings out its poetry, tragedy, or comedy.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.