Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end..

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and us….

[On Gertrude Stein's Making of Americans:] I doubt if all the people who should read it will read it for a great while yet, for it is in such a limit….

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were..

Lovemaking surely must be, for human beings at our present state of development, one of the more private enterprises. Who would want a witness to tha….

Perhaps the habit which distinguishes civilized people from others is that of discussion, exchange of opinion and ideas, the ability to differ withou….

Be respectful of words. They mean something..

Miracles are instantaneous, they cannot be summoned, but come of themselves, usually at unlikely moments and to those who least expect them..

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life..

It is as hard to find a neutral critic as it is a neutral country in time of war. I suppose if a critic were neutral, he wouldn't trouble to write an….

We are born knowing death..

I want to live in a world capital or the howling wilderness..

Now and again thousands of memories converge, harmonize, arrange themselves around a central idea in a coherent form, and I write a story..

I get so tired of moral bookkeeping..

Life is a game of piquet played in a bramble bush in very bad weather..

But the great leveler, Death: not even the gods can defend a man, not even one they love, that day when fate takes hold and lays him out at last..

You are right, none of us live enough, and sometimes I think it is because we mistake hurrah and hullabaloo for experience, we get a sock in the eye ….

I love to praise what I love, and I won't for a minute believe that love is blind -- indeed, it gives clearness without sharpness, and surely that is….

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you..

God does not know whether a skin is black or white, He sees only souls..

I started out with nothing in the world but a kind of passion, a driving desire. I don't know where it came from, and I don't know why - or why I hav….