Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

Well, the way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight rope. When the verities become acrobats, we can judge them.

Out of the unreal shadows of the night comes back the real life that we had known

It is simply expression, as Henry says, that gives reality to things.

I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone.

The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away.

I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for.