I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

Meetings that do not come off keep a character of their own. They stay as they were projected.

A romantic man often feels more uplifted with two women than with one: his love seems to hit the ideal mark somewhere between two different faces.

Sport and death are the two great socializing factors in Ireland.

There is no end to the violations committed by children on children, quietly talking alone.

every short story is an experiment - what one must ask is not only, did it come off, but was it, as an experiment, worth making?

It is not our exalted feelings, it is our sentiments that build the necessary home.