A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

The impulse to mar and to destroy is as ancient and almost as nearly universal as the impulse to create. The one is an easier way than the other of demonstrating power.

Though we face the facts of sex we are more reluctant than ever to face the fact of death or the crueler facts of life, either biological or social.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

February... Now more than ever one must remind oneself that it is wasteful folly to wish that time would pass, or - as the puritanical old saying used to have it - to kill time until it kills you.

A tragic writer does not have to believe in God, but he must believe in man.

Anxiety and distress, interrupted occasionally by pleasure, is the normal course of man's existence.