Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious.

More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read.

Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you.

You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that.

The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering.

It is a very dangerous thing to know one’s friends.

The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible.