There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'.

I will dream today; for I must unscrew my head somehow.

Life without illusion is a ghostly affair.

In each of us two powers preside, one male, one female: and in the man's brain, the man predominates over the woman, and in the woman's brain, the woman predominates over the man...If one is a man, still the woman part of the brain must have effect; and a woman also must have intercourse with the man in her. Coleridge perhaps meant this when he said that a great mind is androgynous. It is when this fusion takes place that the mind is fully fertilized and uses all its faculties.

Henry James seems most entirely in his element, doing that is to say what everything favors his doing, when it is a question of recollection. The mellow light which swims over the past, the beauty which suffuses even the commonest little figures of that

Surely it was time someone invented a new plot, or that the author came out from the bushes.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.