Order is the shape upon which beauty depends.

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

What the common man cannot understand he hates.

Only very coarse persons wanted wars.

Write a novel if you must, but think of money as an unlikely accident. Get your reward out of writing it, and try to be content with that.

The typhoon came out of the sea first as a deep hollow roar. ... I was surrounded by the madness, the unreason, of uncontrolled, undisciplined energy. None of this made any sense. It was worse than useless - it was nature destroying its own creation - its own self. To create by the long process of growth and then to destroy by a fit of wild emotion - was this not madness, was this not unreason?

The feeling one has after coming to know American women is that they are starving at their sources.