The male cannot bear very much humiliation; and he really cannot bear it, it obliterates him.

Everything depends on how relentlessly one forces from experience the last drop, sweet or bitter, it can possibly give.

Drive to the heart of every answer and expose the question the answer hides.

At four o'clock in the morning, when everyone is drunk enough, then extraordinary things can happen.

Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

A person does not lightly elect to oppose his society. One would much rather be at home among one's compatriots than be mocked and detested by them. And there is a level on which the mockery of people, even their hatred, is moving, because it is so blind: It is terrible to watch people cling to their captivity and insist on their own destruction.

One writes out of one thing only - one's own experience.