 There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die. |
| It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion. |
| Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves. |
| A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere. |
| Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul. |
| The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots. |
| Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste. |
| Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. |
| Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse. |
| There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence. |
| International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge. |
| Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space. |
| The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. |
| He is every other inch a gentleman. |
| I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute. |
| Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats. |
| God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide. |
| Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is. |
