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.

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid...There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.