Anyhow they’re always exceptions. But most women, their only relationship to a man is having. Either owning or being owned.

When in the Land of Property think like a propertarian. Dress like one, eat like one, act like one, be one.

Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.

The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain.

The hunger of a dragon is slow to wake, but hard to sate.

If a book were written all in numbers, it would be true. It would be just. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. But underneath the words, at the center, like the center of the Square, it all came out even. Everything could change, yet nothing would be lost. If you saw the numbers you could see that, the balance, the pattern. You saw the foundations of the world. And they were solid.