I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy.

It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's.

I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.