Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts.

There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.

i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there.

If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again.