The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

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

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

Writing was a chimney for my blazing ambitions.

War, for any cause, is inexcusable. There is nothing which excuses us for the beastly ingenuity of our wars. Only fools, only the diseased, think that we are served by killing the strong young men with machines.

She did not so much cook as assassinate food.