It seemed a good idea at the time.

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

[Evelyn Waugh] made drunkenness cute and chic, and then took to religion, simply to have the most expensive carpet of all to be sick on.

Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

Hatred of domestic work is a natural and admirable result of civilization.

It's my profession to bring people from various outlying districts of the mind to the normal. There seems to be a general feeling it's the place where they ought to be. Sometimes I don't see the urgency myself.