I really don't know what happens next -- one so seldom does.
By the side of the everlasting Why there is a Yes--a transitory Yes if you like, but a Yes.
Paganism is infectious, more infectious than diphtheria or piety.
People in a novel can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist can be understood completely by the reader, if the novelist wishes; their inner as well as their outer life can be exposed.
The bully and his victim never quite forget their first relations.
We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.