I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

There is no escape from mystery. It is the character of our being.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

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

The delight we find in art amounts to recognition of a saving grace, to an acknowledgment that the problem of life has a solution implicit in its own nature, though not yet formulated by the intellect.

Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

I believe if people are looking for the truth, the truth of the Christian religion will come out and meet them.