He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. "Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

... for I know I shall be interrupted-- I shall want to be, really, because life is too exciting to sit still for long.

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

I like seeing people when they can't see me.

Perhaps what you call conventionality, I call decency.

I wanted to know more about the young ... strange that though they laughed so loud, they so seldom smiled. Perhaps laughter was involuntary whereas smiling was part of an attitude to life.