Feminism is ridiculous. Feminists are silly idealists who want to be on top. There is no real equality in sexual relationships - someone always wins.

In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?

On the wall of our life together hung a gun waiting to be fired in the final act.

Others are to us like the characters in fiction, eternal and incorrigible; the surprises they give us turn out in the end to have been predictable and unexpected variations on the theme of being themselves.

I was going to get myself recognized at any price. If I could not win fame by goodness, I was ready to do it by badness.

It really takes a hero to live any kind of spiritual life without religious belief.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.