marriage is mostly puttin' up with things, I reckon, when it ain't makin' believe.

... the ordinary is simply the universal observed from the surface, that the direct approach to reality is not without, but within. Touch life anywhereand you will touch universality wherever you touch the earth.

There wouldn't be half as much fun in the world if it weren't for children and men, and there ain't a mite of difference between them under the skins.

The nearer she came to death, the more, by some perversity of nature, did she enjoy living.

Moderation has never yet engineered an explosion

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.

What I hated even more than the conflict was the lurid spectacle of a world of unreason.