If things are real, they're there all the time.

Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad.

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.

There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

Something deep in the human heart breaks at the thought of a life of mediocrity.

Nothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.

Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.