I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

I should think the American admiration of five-minute tourists has done more to kill the sacredness of old European beauty and aspiration than multitudes of bombs would have done.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

I think societal instinct much deeper than sex instinct — and societal repression much more devastating.

The human being is a most curious creature. He thinks he has got one soul, and he has got dozens.

When the emotional soul receives a wounding shock, the soul seems to recover as the body recovers. But this is only in appearance. Slowly, slowly the wound to the soul begins to make itself felt, like a bruise, which only slowly deepens its terrible ache, till it fills all the psyche. And when we think we have recovered and forgotten, it is then that the terrible after-effects have to be encountered at their worst.