I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed.

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.

As there was never any question there was never any answer.

I like loving. I like mostly all the ways one can have of having loving feelings in them. Slowly it has come to be in me that any way of being a loving one is interesting and not unpleasant to me.

The phenomenon of nature is more splendid than the daily events of nature, certainly, so then the twentieth century is splendid.

I think one is naturally impressed by anything having a beginning a middle and an ending when one is beginning writing and that it is a natural thing because when one is emerging from adolescence, which is really when one first begins writing one feels that one would not have been one emerging from adolescence if there had not been a beginning and a middle and an ending to anything.

It is better to lose and win, than win and be defeated.