the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

We all must try to be good.

The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.