It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn’t be over-dreamed —that voice was a deathless song.

How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.