When I think of what life is, and how seldom love is answered by love; it is one of the moments for which the world was made.

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

Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.

The sun was already declining and each of the trees held a premonition of night.

Belfastas uncivilised as ever--savage black mothers in houses of dark red brick, friendly manufacturers too drunk to entertain you when you arrive. It amuses me till I get tired.

How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

Neanderthal man listened to stories, if one may judge by the shape of his skull.