A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Art and propaganda have this much connection, that if a propaganda makes art impossible, it is clearly damned.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.