No one is ever holy without suffering.

Once you start changing a name, you see, there's no reason ever to stop. One always hears one that sounds better.

If a thing's worth doing at all, it's worth doing well.

I think there's almost nothing I can't excuse except perhaps worshiping graven images. That seems to be idiotic.

I can't bare you when you're not amusing.

I should like to bury something precious in every place where I've been happy and then, when I'm old and ugly and miserable, I could come back and dig it up and remember.

But I was in search of love in those days, and I went full of curiosity and the faint, unrecognized apprehension that here, at last, I should find that low door in the wall, which others, I knew, had found before me, which opened on an enclosed and enchanted garden, which was somewhere, not overlooked by any window, in the heart of that grey city.