If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away.

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

We haven’t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. "Five years next November." The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute.

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

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.