If it be ungentlemanly to kiss and tell, it is still further from gentlemanliness to pray and tell.

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

It would be no loss to the world if most of the writers now writing had been strangled at birth.

I do not think women understand how repelled a man feels when he sees a woman wholly absorbed in what she is thinking, unless it is about her child, or her husband, or her lover. It ... gives one gooseflesh.

A good cause has to be careful of the company it keeps.

... it matters not what natural endowment a race may have if it prostitutes itself to the service of death.