You needn't be so scared. Love doesn't end. Just because we don't see each other.

All the emotions have something in common. People are quite aware of the sorrow there always is in lust, but they are not so aware of the lust there is in sorrow.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

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

One never knows enough about characters in real life to put them into novels. One gets started and then, suddenly, one can not remember what toothpaste they use; what are their views on interior decoration, and one is stuck utterly. No, major characters emerge; minor ones may be photographed.

You cannot love without intuition.

He was impregnably armored by his good intentions and his ignorance.