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

[On Jane Austen:] To believe her limited in range because she was harmonious in method is as sensible as to imagine that when the Atlantic Ocean is as smooth as a mill-pond it shrinks to the size of a mill-pond.

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

All disgrace smells alike. Differences in ruin are only matters of degree.

Unfortunately, all gatherings convened for the betterment of the human lot show a tendency to gas themselves, and not with laughing-gas either.

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.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.