Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

Whatever happens, never forget that people would rather be led to perdition by a man, than to victory by a woman.

Where there is real love one wants to go to church first.

Bad art is maintained by the neurotic, who is deadly afraid of authentic art because it inspires him to go on living, and he is terrified of life.

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 find to my astonishment that an unhappy marriage goes on being unhappy when it is over.

There is, of course, no reason for the existence of the male sex except that one sometimes needs help with moving the piano.