The greatest of mythologies divided its gods into creators, preservers and destroyers. Tidiness obviously belongs to the second category, which mitigates the terrific impact of the other two.

Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle.

In one form or another, conscious or unconscious, we have all become propagandists; integrity alone can keep us truthful.

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

words are but drops pressed out of the lives of those who lived them.

I feel like a divorced wife once my book is published and has left me, and hate to be brought back into intimate contact!

The beckoning counts, and not the clicking of the latch behind you.