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

Passion is not friendly. It is arrogant, superbly contemptuous of all that is not itself, and, as they very definition of passion implies the impulse to freedom, it has a might intimidiating power. It contains a challenge. It contains an unspeakable hope.

You want to write a sentence as clean as a bone. That is the goal.

Yr crown has been bought and paid for. All you have to do is put it on yr head

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

The writer's only real task: to recreate out of the disorder of life that order which is art

Hatred, which could destroy so much, never failed to destroy the man who hated, and this was an immutable law.