The romantic seeks only to get his head into the heavens. The rationalist seeks to get the heavens into his head – and it is his head that splits.

“Women are the only realists; their whole object in life is to pit their realism…”

“There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing tha…”

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the tr…”

“And my haunting instinct that somehow good was not merely a tool to be used, bu…”