You seemed to me to be soaring far up in the blue - to be sailing in the bright light, over the heads of men. Suddenly some one tosses up a faded rosebud - a missile that should never have reached you - and down you drop to the ground.

Every good story is of course both a picture and an idea, and the more they are interfused the better.

Life is a predicament which precedes death.

When you forget to eat, you know you're alive.

Most English talk is a quadrille in a sentry-box.

To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.

Things are always different than what they might be...If you wait for them to change, you will never do anything.