To make laws is a human instinct that arises as soon as food and shelter have been ensured, among all peoples, everywhere.

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

whatever a work of art may be, the artist certainly cannot dare to be simple. He must have a nature as complicated and as violent, as totally unsuggestive of the word innocence, as a modern war.

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

Anthologies are mischievous things. Some years ago there was a rage for chemically predigested food, which was only suppressed when doctors pointed out that since human beings had been given teeth and digestive organs they had to be used or they degenerated very rapidly. Anthologies are predigested food for the brain.

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