the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.

Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it.

Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.