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.

The earth itself is slightly resistant to routine.

I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value.

For the sake of my country, and perhaps a little for the sake of my soul, I have given up the deep peace of being in opposition.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

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.

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