Economists are like Aeolian harps, and the sounds that issue from them are determined by the winds that blow.

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

The Portrait of a Lady is entirely successful in giving one the sense of having met somebody far too radiantly good for this world.

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

The case against religion is the responsibility of God for the sufferings of mankind, which makes it impossible to believe the good things said about Him in the Bible, and consequently to believe anything it says about Him.

... it is nearly impossible to understand those who are beyond our sight, who are not explained to us by ties of birth or the contact of the flesh.

All good biography, as all good fiction, comes down to the study of original sin, of our inherent disposition to choose death when we ought to choose life.