Falling in love is the easiest thing in the world. It's standing in love that matters.

Passion is more important than justice.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

I do not have any home. So why should I be homesick?

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.

The human heart is a lonely hunter-but the search for us southerners is more anguished.