The standard dreaming of a society has to be listened to..

It took most people a lifetime to join the human race..

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer..

When anything gets freed, a zest goes round the world..

Sociology, the guilty science, functions best by alarm..

Every art is a church without communicants, presided over by a parish of the respectable. An artist is born kneeling; he fights to stand. A critic, b….

This is my answer to the gap between ideas and action - I will write it out..

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity..

In a family, the same spoken lines come in over and over. Intimacy exhausts..

Diplomacy is what is practiced after-the-fact. Never be too right too soon -- as any smart Uncle will tell you. The man who guesses what will happen ….

It has always seemed to me that if you could talk about your work in fully-formed phrases, you wouldn't write it. The writing is the statement, you s….

I get up and I have coffee and I speak to no man and I go to my desk..

What I have written-and how I came to write it-is most powerfully what I am..

'Ms.' is a syllable which sounds like a bumble bee is breaking wind..

Agony without genius was gaucherie..

First publication is a pure, carnal leap into that dark which one dreams is life..

Women can't travel light. We're in charge of the basic facts..

A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose..

But memory, after a time, dispenses its own emphasis, making a feuilleton of what we once thought most ponderable, laying its wreath on what we never….

Speech isn't for agony..

The young show the genetic process, the old merely die of it..