An animal is not cruel; it lives wholly in the instant leap on its prey, in the present taste of marrow or blood. Cruelty begins with the memory, and the pleasures of the memory are impure; they draw their strength along levels where no sun has reached.

Great advertising is the expression of deep emotional sincerity.

I am persuaded that not a novel in ten thousand is of any use to a child to fit him for life. The most are of use only to unfit him -- to blunt his senses and infect him with the writers' poor silly sentiments. Nine out of ten novelists deserve to be prosecuted under an Adulterated Emotions Act.

For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received.

Is it really beyond our wits to devise some form of censorship which would trap only the crudely sadistic?

As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.

Women will always put persons above ideas ... and so they'll always be defeated. Persons die, and ideas rule the world.