Even the propagandists on the radio find it very difficult to really say let alone believe that the world will be a happy place, of love and peace and plenty, and that the lion will lie down with the lamb and everybody will believe anybody.

I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.

An audience is pleasant if you have it, it is flattering and flattering is agreeable always, but if you have an audience the being an audience is their business, they are the audience you are the writer, let each attend to their own business.

The deepest thing in any one is the conviction of the bad luck that follows boasting.

One of the things that I discovered in lecturing was that gradually one ceased to hear what one said one heard what the audience hears one say.

You never answer a question nobody does.

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