After all, damn it, what does being in love mean if you can't trust a person.

The only thing that it is advisable to know in any language is the numerals; and even there, you can do a lot with the fingers.

Anyone could write a novel given six weeks, pen paper, and no telephone or wife.

That was the change in her from ten years ago; that, indeed, was her reward, this haunting, magical sadness which spoke straight to the heart and struck silence; it was the completion of her beauty.

You never find an Englishman among the under-dogs except in England, of course.

that is not the last word; it is not even an apt word; it is a dead word from ten years back.

The worse I am, the more I need God. I can't shut myself out from His mercy. That is what it would mean; starting a life with you, without Him. Julia to Charles