As I grow old I hate the writing of letters more and more, and like getting them better and better.

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats - and one always secretes too much jelly.

War is not women's history.

For the young people could not talk. And why should they? Shout, embrace, swing, be up at dawn.

[Ulysses is] the work of a queasy undergraduate scratching his pimples.

For it is probable that when people talk aloud, the selves (of which there may be more than two thousand) are conscious of disserverment, and are trying to communicate but when communication is established there is nothing more to be said.