But there is, I have learned, no permanent escape from the past. It may be an unrecognized law of our nature that we should be drawn back, inevitably, to the place where we have suffered most.

After all, you can't expect men not to judge by appearances.

... to be "literary" appeared to my deluded innocence as an unending romance.

The surest way of winning love is to look as if you didn't need it.

I ain't never seen no head so level that it could bear the lettin' in of politics.

anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

... though not invariably the worst choice, war is always an obscene horror.