In the sex war, thoughtlessness is the weapon of the male, vindictiveness of the female.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.
The artist one day falls through a hole in the brambles, and from that moment he is following the dark rapids of an underground river which may sometimes flow so near to the surface that the laughing...
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.
Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice journalism what will be grasped at once.