I liked human beings, but I did not love human nature.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psychology, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

Many of the men who had come to the wilderness to practice religion appeared to have forgotten its true nature.

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.