It is funny that men who are supposed to be scientific cannot get themselves to realise the basic principle of physics, that action and reaction are equal and opposite, that when you persecute people you always rouse them to be strong and stronger.
I've been rich and I've been poor. It's better to be rich.
Hemingway's remarks are not literature.
An audience is always warming but it must never be necessary to your work.
There is no real reality to a really imagined life any more.
I do want to get rich but I never want to do what there is to do to get rich.
I could undertake to be an efficient pupil if it were possible to find an efficient teacher.
In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.
There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing.
What is music. A passion for colonies not a love of country.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.
Remarks are not literature.
Everybody thinks that this civilization has lasted a very long time but it really does take very few grandfathers' granddaughters to take us back to the dark ages.
Just as everybody has the vote including women, I think children should, because as a child is conscious of itself then it has to me an existence and has a stake in what happens.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
That is what war is and dancing it is forward and back, when one is out walking one wants not to go back the way they came but in dancing and in war it is forward and back.
It is always a mistake to be plain-spoken.
It is extraordinary that whole populations have no projects for the future, none at all. It certainly is extraordinary, but it is certainly true.
