Nothing any good isn't hard.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at.

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

The sun had gone down behind the tall apartments of the movie stars in the West Fifties, and the unclear voices of children, already gathered like crikets on the grass, rose through the hot twilight.

but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering.