I don't believe that to understand is necessarily to pardon, but I feel that to understand makes one forget that one cannot pardon.

A great many quite good plays could be performed with rhythmic howls in the place of dialogue and lose almost nothing by the change.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.

If there is to be any romance in marriage woman must be given every chance to earn a decent living at other occupations. Otherwise no man can be sure that he is loved for himself alone, and that his wife did not come to the Registry Office because she had no luck at the Labour Exchange.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Babbitt as a book was planless; its end arrived apparently because its author had come to the end of the writing-pad, or rather, one might suspect from its length, to the end of all writing-pads then on the market.

I have no faith in the sense of comforting beliefs which persuade me that all my troubles are blessings in disguise.