Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

War is a thing of fearful and curious anomalies ... It has shown that government by men only is not an appeal to reason, but an appeal to arms; that on women, without a voice to protest, must fall the burden. It is easier to die than to send a son to death.

Some day some one will write a book about that frantic search of the creative worker for silence and freedom, not only from interruption but from the fear of interruption.

The stage on which we play our little dramas of life and love has for most of us but one setting.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

To men and women who want to do things, there is nothing quite so driving as the force of an imprisoned ego. . . . All genius comes from this class.

Men love a joke - on the other fellow. But your really humorous woman loves a joke on herself.