I have found that a story leaves a deeper impression when it is impossible to tell which side the author is on.

In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.

You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game.

I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly