Motherhood is neither a duty nor a privilege, but simply the way that humanity can satisfy the desire for physical immortality and triumph over the fear of death.

A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

... when the Spaniards persecuted heretics they may have been crude, but they were not being unreasonable or unpractical. They were at least wiser than the people of to-day who pretend that it does not matter what a man believes, as who should say that the flavour and digestibility of a pudding will have nothing to do with its ingredients.

Literature must be an analysis of experience and a synthesis of the findings into a unity.

When we choose a god we choose one as much like ourselves as possible, or even more so!

What is art? It is not decoration. It is the re-living of experience.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.