Silences can be as different as sounds.

The paradox of romantic love -- that what one possesses, one can no longer desire -- was at work.

Young girls like the excess of any quality. Without knowing, they want to suffer, to suffer they must exaggerate; they like to have loud chords struck on them.

Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

Yes, writing a novel, my boy, is like driving pigs to market - you have one of them making a bolt down the wrong lane; another won't get over the right stile.

the slight sense of degeneracy induced by reading novels before luncheon

Makes of men date, like makes of car.