Limited minds can recognize limitations only in others.

To be able to forget means sanity.

Mercedes nursed a special grievance - the grievance of sex. She was pretty and soft, and had been chivalrously treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous. It was her custom to be helpless. They complained. Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex pregorative, she made their lives unendurable.

I early learned that there were two natures in me. This caused me a great deal of trouble, till I worked out a philosophy of life and struck a compromise between the flesh and the spirit. Too great an ascendancy of either was to be abnormal, and since normality is almost a fetish of mine, I finally succeeded in balancing both natures. Ordinarily they are at equilibrium; yet as frequently as one is permitted to run rampant, so is the other. I have small regard for an utter brute or for an utter saint.

Don't write too much. Concentrate your sweat on one story, rather than dissipate it over a dozen.

Socialism, when the last word is said, is merely a new economic and political system whereby more men can get food to eat.

Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united.