New York is large, glamorous, easy-going, kindly and incurious, but above all it is a crucible - because it is large enough to be incurious.

We are all so afraid, we are all so alone, we all so need from the outside the assurance of our own worthiness to exist.

He added that a Frenchman in the train had given him a great sandwich that so stank of garlic that he had been inclined to throw it at the fellow's head.

I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is the end of him.

Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English heart. I had known the shallows.

In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands against reason, intellect corrects passion and first impressions act a little, but very little, before quick reflection.

...she had always known under her mind and now she confessed it: her agony had been, half of it, because one day he would say farewell to her, like that, with the inflexion of a verb. As, just occasionally, using the word 'we' - and perhaps without intention - he had let her know that he loved her.