almost all novels are love stories.

faith is like love; when you want it you can't find it, and you find it when you least expect it.

The lessons of experience are always learned too late.

To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion.

Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.

Life resembles a novel more often than novels resemble life.

It is quite wrong to think of old age as a downward slope. On the contrary, one climbs higher and higher with the ad-vancing years, and that, too with sur-prising strides. Brain-work comes as easily to the old as physical exertion to the child. One is moving, it is true, towards the end of life, but that end is now a goal, and not a reef in which the vessel may be dashed.