the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

Also, perhaps children are sterner than grown-up people in their refusal to suffer, in their refusal, even, to feel at all.

...the power-loving temperament is more dangerous when it either prefers or is forced to operate in what is materially a void. Wehave everything to dread from the dispossessed.

One's sentiments -- call them that -- one's fidelities are so instinctive that one hardly knows they exist: only when they are betrayed or, worse still, when one betrays them does one realize their power.

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone.

We desert those who desert us; we cannot afford to suffer; we must live how we can.

Dialogue should show the relationships among people.