It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

She walked about with the rather fated expression you see in photographs of girls who have subsequently been murdered, but nothing had so far happened to her.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

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

we can surmount the anger we feel. To find oneself like a young tree inside a tomb is to discover the power to crack the tomb and grow up to any height.

In big houses in which things are done properly, there is always the religious element. The diurnal cycle is observed with more feeling when there are servants to do the work.

Writers do not find subjects; subjects find them.