Curiosity is one of the lowest of the human faculties. You will have noticed in daily life that when people are inquisitive they nearly always have bad memories and are usually stupid at bottom.

When love flies it is remembered not as love but as something else.

In the novel we can know people perfectly, and, apart from the general pleasure of reading, we can find here a compensation for their dimness in life.

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

You want to love everyone equally, and that's worse than impossible--it's wrong.

The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.

A facade of skyscrapers facing a lake and behind the facade, every type of dubiousness.