There is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person, however dear and beloved, but an expansion, an interpretation, of one's self, the very meaning of one's soul.

To have you here, you mean-in reach and yet out of reach? To meet you in this way, on the sly? It's the very reverse of what I want.

Women ought to be free - as free as we are,' he declared, making a discovery of which he was too irritated to measure the terrific consequences.

There are two ways to spread happiness; either be the light who shines it or be the mirror who reflects it.

When people ask for time, it's always for time to say no. Yes has one more letter in it, but it doesn't take half as long to say.

Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving towards the watcher on the shore.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!