Life's just a perpetual piecing together of broken bits.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

She would not have put herself out so much to say so little.

How much longer are we going to think it necessary to be American before (or in contradistinction to) being cultivated, being enlightened, being humane, and having the same intellectual discipline as other civilized countries?

I have never known a novel that was good enough to be good in spite of its being adapted to the author's political views.

One of the first obligations of art is to make all useful things beautiful.

Silence may be as variously shaded as speech.