The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.