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

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.

To those who fall and hurt themselves one runs with comfort; by those who lie dangerously stricken by a disease one sits and waits.

There are two kinds of imperialists - imperialists and bloody imperialists.