No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.

He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock.

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

To most women art is a form of scandal.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.

The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.