Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

The only way to live is to accept each minute as an unrepeatable miracle, which is exactly what it is: a miracle and unrepeatable.

In what touches their social convictions, most persons do not think. The threat of change, with all it suggests to them in the loss of social and economic privilege, alarms so deeply that they are incapable of unprejudiced thought. They seem to themselves to be thinking, with lucidity and fairness, but since they start from the conviction that change must undoubtedly be for the worse or from settled grief at the thought of losing what is old and lovely, they are doing no more than following a logical sequence of ideas from a false premise.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

Critics have been amusing themselves for a long time by auscultating fiction for signs of heart failure.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.