A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.
Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.
Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.
Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.
I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.
It is queer how it is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.
Journalism -- an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.
Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
Motherhood is the strangest thing. It's like being your own Trojan horse. The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.
The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.
We love people, and we say that we were going to do more for them than friendship, but it makes such fools of us that we do far less, indeed sometimes what we do could be mistaken for the work of hatred.