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

Innocence is a kind of insanity

I'm only saying I want you to be happy. I hate your being unhappy. I don't mind anything you do that makes you happy." You just want an excuse. If I sleep with anybody else, you feel you can do the same - any time." That's neither here nor there. I want you to be happy, that's all." You'd make my bed for me?" Perhaps.

No building was safe from the furniture, the pictures, the human beings that it would presently contain.

I measured love by the extent of my jealousy.

You must promise me. You can't desire the end without desiring the means.' Ah, but one can, he thought, one can: one can desire the peace of victory without desiring the ravaged towns.

Politics, war, marriage, crime, adultery. Everything that exists in the world has something to do with money.