There is nothing more frightening than the faces of people whom one does not know but who seem to know one, and be amused by one.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

If there is a God, I don't think He would demand that anyone bow down or stand up to Him. I often have a suspicion that God is still trying to work things out and hasn't finished.

The aged are terrible - mere heaps of cinders on the grass from which none can tell how tall the flames once were or what company gathered round them.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

it is necessary that we should all have a little of the will to die, because otherwise we would find the performance of our biological duty of death too difficult.