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

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

Time spent in a casino is time given to death, a foretaste of the hour when one's flesh will be diverted to the purposes of the worm and not of the will.

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

Art is not a plaything, but a necessity, and its essence, form, is not a decorative adjustment, but a cup into which life can be poured and lifted to the lips and be tasted.

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.