I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold.

No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.

We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal.

Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence

I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings.

A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously.

It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about.