The impossible talked of is less impossible from the moment words are laid to it.

My mind is not suited to go much into company.

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

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

Inevitably, the flood of literary pornography loosed on us is dulling our reactions of surprise or shock. Its writers are forced to raise the ante, to provide stronger and stronger stimulants. Or try to provide them, since both the manner, the naming of parts and the few inexpressive four-letter words, and the matter, are narrowly limited.

The young are so much more vulnerable than the old - the stuff is still warm and malleable, it takes impressions.

jealousy, the most hideous emotion any human being ever suffers, has nothing to do with the mind. Or not at first.