An unread book is just a block of paper.

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.

The greatest profound pain is cased by, and is the result of our own illusions, fantasies and dreams.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss.