Integrity can be neither lost nor concealed nor faked nor quenched nor artificially come by nor outlived, nor, I believe, in the long run, denied.

We are the breakers of our own hearts

Is there any sleeping person you can be entirely sure you have not misjudged?

I'm a great reader that never has time to read.

The very greatest mystery is in unsheathed reality itself.

Dialogue has to show not only something about the speaker that is its own revelation, but also maybe something about the speaker that he doesn't know but the other character does know.

The first act of insight is throw away the labels.