Fiction and poetry are the only way one can stop time and give an account of an experience and nail it down so that it lasts for ever.

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience.

The unsuccessful bully can always become the father of a family.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

I have never been able to write with anything more than the left hand of my mind; the right hand has always been engaged in something to do with personal relationships. I don't complain, because I think my left hand's power, as much as it has, is due to its knowledge of what my right hand is doing.

... 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.