Like all bad drivers, he [Henry Andrews] thought he was the best driver in the world...

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

Domesticity is essentially drama, for drama is conflict, and the home compels conflict by its concentration of active personalities in a small area. The real objection to domesticity is that it is too exciting.

... in the happy laughter of a theatre audience one can get the most immediate and numerically impressive guarantee that there is nothing in one's mind which is not familiar to the mass of persons living at the time.

Submission to poverty is the unpardonable sin against the body. Submission to unhappiness is the unpardonable sin against the spirit.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.