A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

'Like a work of art,' she repeated, looking from her canvas to the drawing-room steps and back again. She must rest for a moment. And, resting, looking from on…

When a subject is highly controversial - and any question about sex is that - one cannot hope to tell the truth. One can only show how one came to hold whateve…

For our penitence deserves a glimpse only; our toil respite only.

My belief is that if we live another century or so - I am talking of the common life which is the real life and not of the little separate lives which we live …

God damn it, you might think a man had no business to be writing, to be a poet unless some philosophic stinker gave him permission.

It is a good world to live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in; But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was kn…