There was a definite process by which one made people into friends, and it involved talking to them and listening to them for hours at a time.

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.

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

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.

[The satirist] must fully possess, at least in the world of the imagination, the quality the lack of which he is deriding in others.

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology.

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