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

The anguished suspense of watching the lips you hunger for, framing the words, the death sentence, of sheer triteness!

I put the words down and push them a bit.

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

There is practically no sense that is not violated every time we return from the country or the sea to Paris or London or New York.

Remember that, however patient your study, you will never in adult life learn any language perfectly; the best you can hope for is to be a bore.

I have been in the scholastic profession long enough to know that nobody enters it unless he has some very good reason that he is anxious to conceal.