Art should be appreciated with passion and violence, not with a tepid, depreciating elegance that fears the censoriousness of a common room.

It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.

He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping, he loved her. He would rather have misery with one than happiness with the other.

Considering how foolishly people act and how pleasantly they prattle, perhaps it would be better for the world if they talked more and did less.

Of all the hokum with which this country [America] is riddled, the most odd is the common notion that it is free of class distinctions.

A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn't pretty it won't do her much good.

You can never know enough about your characters