She is sighing deeply now with sympathy and delight - the delight of an addict when someone else admits he's hooked, too.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.

I'm very militant, you know, in a quite way.

The Quito telephone service is about as reliable as roulette.

The past is just something that's over.

If it’s going to be a world with no time for sentiment, it’s not a world that I want to live in.

We must remember that nothing in this world really belongs to us. At best, we are merely borrowers.