No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us, - something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim

When we have ceased to love the stench of the human animal, either in others or in ourselves, then are we condemned to misery, and clear thinking can begin.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.