I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.

Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced.

Ah, if everyone was as sensitive as you! There's no girl who hasn't gone through that. And it's all so unimportant!

And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children.

To sin is a human business, to justify sins is a devilish business.

I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.