Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the heat of personal communication.

Some things are best learned in calm, others in storm.

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

Art and religion (they are the same thing, in the end, of course) have given man the only happiness he has ever had.

The world is little, people are little, human life is little. There is only one big thing — desire.