Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

Sacrificers ... are not the ones to pity. The ones to pity are those that they sacrifice. Oh, the sacrificers, they get it both ways. A person knows themselves that they're able to do without.

People in love, in whom every sense is open, cannot beat off the influence of a place.

[My early stories] are the work of a living writer whom I know in a sense, but can never meet.

Curiosity in Rome is a form of courtesy.

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

Revenge was a very wild kind of justice.