Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.

It appears that even the different parts of the same person do not converse among themselves, do not succeed in learning from each other what are their desires and their intentions.

Unhappy people are dangerous.

music is a missionary effort to colonize earth for imperialistic heaven.

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.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

History sometimes acts as madly as heredity, and her most unpredictable performances are often her most glorious.