Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is.
You can't really study people; you can only get to know them.
Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.
Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.
Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything.
The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that.