Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.

Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.

Rigid, the skeleton of habit alone upholds the human frame.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.

Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.