The instances of honesty that one comes across in this world are just as amazing as the instances of dishonesty. After forty-five years of mixing with one's kind, one ought to have acquired the habit of being able to know something about one's fellow beings. But one doesn't

What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of yourself. As far as he is concerned, he wishes to express himself.

There is no man who loves a woman that does not desire to come to her for the renewal of his courage, for the cutting asunder of his difficulties. And that will be the mainspring of his desire for her. 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.

And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at me.

But responsibility hardens the heart. It must.

The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!

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.