My books are about killing God.
We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.
We are not the same persons this year as last; nor are those we love. It is a happy chance if we, changing, continue to love a changed person.
Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.
Throw yourself into the hurly-burly of life. It doesn't matter how many mistakes you make, what unhappiness you have to undergo. It is all your material. . . Don't wait for experience to come to you; go out after experience. Experience is your material.
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.
The fact that a great many people believe something is no guarantee of its truth.
Do you know that all great spurts in. . . progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system?
Whether our reformers admit it or not, the economic and social inferiority of women is responsible for prostitution.
For fear you will be alone you do so many things that aren't you at all.
It's not that I ever sat down and outlined a trilogy, but I always have a sense of what size an idea is when I start it.