Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.

I see the main problem of my life, and indeed anybody's life, as the balancing of competitive freedoms ... a sense of mutual obligations that have to be honored, and a legal system which can be trusted to step in when that sense fails.

I always have beauty around me, for I have but to go to my piano, and trace one of the million designs that have been made by my masters.

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

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

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.

Human beings are mercifully so constituted as to be able to conceal from themselves what they intend to do until they are well into the doing of it.