A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility

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

She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.