We shall hurt others less. Isn't it, after all, what you always wanted?

The essence of taste is suitability. Divest the word of its prim and priggish implications, and see how it expresses the mysterious demand of the eye and mind for symmetry, harmony and order.

Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Once more it was borne in on him that marriage was not the safe anchorage he had been taught to think, but a voyage on uncharted seas.

It was harder to drown at sunrise than in darkness.

I discovered early that crying makes my nose red, and the knowledge has helped me through several painful episodes.

“Yes, the Gorgon has dried your tears,” he said. “Well, she opened my eyes too; it's a delusion to say that she blinds people. What she does is just the contrary — she fastens their eyelids open, so that they're never again in the blessed darkness.”