Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.

The funny part of it all is that relatively few people seem to go crazy, relatively few even a little crazy or even a little weird, relatively few, and those few because they have nothing to do that is to say they have nothing to do or they do not do anything that has anything to do with the war only with food and cold and little things like that.

One never discusses anything with anybody who can understand one discusses things with people who cannot understand.

An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.

The times are so peculiar now, so mediaeval so unreasonable that for the first time in a hundred years truth is really stranger than fiction. Any truth.

Once upon a time the world was round, and you could go on it around and around.

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.