Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil - or else an absolute ignorance.

Eternity is said not to be an extension of time but an absence of time.

I've caught belief like a disease. I've fallen into belief like I fell in love.

People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Fun... human nature... does no one any harm... Regular as clockwork the old excuses came back into the alert, sad and dissatisfied brain--nothing ever matched the deep excitement of the regular desire. Men always failed you when it came to the act. She might just as well have been to the pictures.

American bankers believe in the personal touch; the teller conveys a sense that he happens to be there accidentally and he is overjoyed at the lucky chance of the encounter.