Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

Love needs the stiffening of respect, the give and take of equality.

There's never been a lack of men willing to die bravely. The trouble is to find a few able to live sensibly.

I can't think why I was cursed with this inordinate desire to write, if the high gods weren't going to give me some more adquate means of expressing myself than that which my present pedestrian prose affords.

Everybody's tragedy is somebody's nuisance.

What with the reviews of critics, the sarcasms of one's friends, the reproaches of one's own taste, there's precious little peace after publishing a book.

I am fierce for work. Without work I am nothing.