God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

She saw she had fallen into the hands of one of those doctors who have strayed too far from apparent in the direction of the soul.

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Humanity is never more sphinxlike than when it is expressing itself.