Dialogue is the ideal means of showing what is between the characters. It crystallizes relationships. It should, ideally, be so effective as to make analysis or explanation of the relationships between the characters unnecessary.

To walk into history is to be free at once, to be at large among people.

First love, with its frantic haughty imagination, swings its object clear of the everyday, over the rut of living, making him all looks, silences, gestures, attitudes, a burning phrase with no context.

No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye.

Love of privacy - perhaps because of the increasing exactions of society - has become in many people almost pathological.

memory is to love what the saucer is to the cup.

Someone soon to start on a journey is always a little holy.