The childhood of the individual and the race is full of fears, and panic-stricken attempts to avert what is feared by placating the gods with painful sacrifices.

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

The memory, experiencing and re-experiencing, has such power over one's mere personal life, that one has merely lived.

Music is part of human life and partakes of the human tragedy. There is much more music in the world than is allowed to change into heard sounds and prove its point.

The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy.

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.