life is a succession of readjustments.
Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.
Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.
Style is the thing that's always a bit phony, and at the same time you cannot write without style.
I can't see or feel the conflict between love and religion. To me, they're the same thing.
Childish fantasy, like the sheath over the bud, not only protects but curbs the terrible budding spirit, protects not only innocence from the world, but the world from the power of innocence.