The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear.

Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger.

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know.

There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence.

'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.