Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

Life was a damned muddle - a football game with everyone offside and the referee gotten rid of - everyone claiming the referee would have been on his side.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

If you spend your life sparing people’s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can’t distinguish what should be respected in them.

Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses