So long as one is happy one can endure any discipline: it was unhappiness that broke down the habits of work.

We never get accustomed to being less important to other people than they are to us.

I refused to believe that love could take any other form than mine: I measured love by the extent of my jealousy, and by that standard of course she could not love me at all.

Men have prayed in prison, men have prayed in slums and concentration camps. It's only the middle class who demand to pray in suitable surroundings.

Men can become twins with age. The past was their common womb; the six months of rain and the six months of sun was the period of their common gestation. They needed only a few words and a few gestures to convey their meaning. They had graduated through the same fevers, they were moved by the same love and contempt.

Who knows whether there may not be a moment in childhood when the world changes forever, like making a face when the clock strikes?

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.