"For masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the s…"

"I have an immense desire to be alone; and yet I am afraid of solitude."

"I am a great deal interested suddenly in my book. I want to bring in the despicableness of people like Ott. I want to give the slipperiness of the soul."

"I have a great mind to write a book about the horrors of marriage."

"Why do we always think of the past as so much more beautiful than the present?"