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
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.", February 25, 1933]
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
Hate is the consequence of fear we fear something before we hate it a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noise.
The true index of a man's character is the health of his wife.
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.
Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
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.
It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.
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...
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.
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
The worst vice of the solitary is the worship of his food.
Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.
We are all serving a life sentence in the dungeon of self.
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.