Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.

Criticism, that fine flower of personal expression in the garden of letters.

Who would care to question the ground of forgiveness or compassion.

Everything belonged to him--but that was a trifle. The thing to know was what he belonged to, how many powers of darkness claimed him for their own.

The ocean has the conscienceless temper of a savage autocrat spoiled by much adulation

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

A historian may be an artist too, and a novelist is a historian, the preserver, the keeper, the expounder, of human experience.