“It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.”

“Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”

“For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.”

“The real novelist, the perfectly simple human being, could go on, indefinitely imaging. ”

“He was afraid he did not understand beauty apart form human beings.”

“For the truth is ... that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment. They hunt in packs. Their packs scour the desert and vanish screaming into the wilderness. They desert the fallen.”

“My notion's to think of the human beings first and let the abstract ideas take care of themselves.”