We agreed that people are now afraid of the English language. He [T.S. Eliot] said it came of being bookish, but not reading books enough. One should read all styles thoroughly.

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

I was lying in bed this morning and saying to myself, 'the remarkable thing about Ethel is her stupendous self-satisfaction' when in came your letter to confirm this profound psychological observation. How delighted I was!

Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.

Facts must be manipulated; some must be brightened; others shaded; yet, in the process, they must never lose their integrity.

They went in and out of each other's minds without any effort.

Truth had run through my fingers. Every drop had escaped.