I really write to find out what I know about something and what is to be known about something.

There is a point, and it is reached more easily than is supposed, where interference with freedom of the arts and literature becomes an attack on the life of society.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Destiny is another name for humanity's half-hearted yet persistent search for death. Again and again peoples have had the chance to live and show what would happen if human life were irrigated by continual happiness; and they have preferred to blow up the canals and perish of drought.

The adventure is over. Everything gets over, and nothing is ever enough. Except the part you carry with you.

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

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.