Solitude is indeed dangerous for a working intelligence. We need to have around us people who think and speak. When we are alone for a long time we people the void with phantoms

Night was a very different matter. It was dense, thicker than the very walls, and it was empty, so black, so immense that within it you could brush against appalling things and feel roaming and prowling around a strange, mysterious horror.

She realized for the first time that two people can never reach each others deepest feelings and instincts, that they spend their lives side by side, linked it may be, but not mingled, and that each one's inmost being must go through life eternally alone.

Since governments take the right of death over their people, it is not astonishing if the people should sometimes take the right of death over governments.

Military men are the scourges of the world.

Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines

To avoid each other, their eyes had developed an amazing mobility with all the cunning of enemies fearful of meeting each other head on.