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 really do not know that anything has ever been more exciting than diagramming sentences.

You cannot go into the womb to form the child; it is there and makes itself and comes forth whole-and there it is and you have made it and have felt it, but it has come itself.

To be regularly gay was to do every day the gay thing that they did every day. To be regularly gay was to end every day at the same time after they had been regularly gay. They were regularly gay. They were gay every day. They ended every day in the same way, at the same time, and they had been every day regularly gay.

One must either accept some theory or else believe one's own instinct or follow the world's opinion.

I cannot write too much upon how necessary it is to be completely conservative that is particularly traditional in order to be free.

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