How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.