So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

The rich are different from us.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.

Somewhere inside me there’ll always be the person I am to-night

A writer wastes nothing.

Then there came a faraway, booming voice like a low, clear bell. It came from the center of the bowl and down the great sides to the ground and then bounced toward her eagerly. 'You see I am fate,' it shouted, 'and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.