The parents exist to teach the child, but also they must learn what the child has to teach them; and the child has a very great deal to teach them

Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.

Journalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.

The war years count double. Things and people not actively in use age twice as fast.

Every scene, even the commonest, is wonderful, if only one can detach oneself, casting off all memory of use and custom and behold it, as it were, for the first time.

Of all the inhabitants of the inferno, none but Lucifer knows that hell is hell, and the secret function of purgatory is to make of heaven an effective reality.

The most important preliminary to the task of arranging one's life so that one may live fully and comfortably within one's daily budget of 24 hours is the calm realization of the extreme difficulty of the task, of the sacrifices and the endless effort which it demands.