People do not choose a career; the career envelopes them.

Democracy evolves where freedom is able to determine its own policy.

What's the use, there never was a woman living who could understand political ideas.

If there is a special Hades for writers is would be in the forced contemplation of their own works.

The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men will reach the white heat of imagination needed to fuse the soggy disjointed complexity of the industrial life about us into seething fluid of creation. There can be no more playing safe.

War is utter damn nonsense, a vast cancer fed by lies and self seeking malignity on the part of those who don't do the fighting.

Women alone always order sole. It means something.