By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.

The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.

I think you’re beautiful, the only beautiful person I’ve ever seen. I love your voice and everything to do with you, down to your clothes or the room you are sitting in. I adore you.

You confuse what's important with what's impressive.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

Their quarrel was no more surprising than are most quarrels — inevitable at the time, incredible afterwards.

It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.