Her heart was broken perhaps, but it was a small inexpensive organ of local manufacture. In a wider and grander way she felt things had been simplified.

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

You don't remove the evil in a person by killing the person.

An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

O God, make me good, but not yet.

I'm one of the blind alleys off the main road of procreation.