He was there or was not there: not there if I didn't see him.

The power to guess the unseen from the seen, to trace the implications of things, to judge the whole piece by the pattern . . . this cluster of gifts may almost be said to constitute experience.

All the same don't forget that you're young — blessedly young; be glad of it on the contrary and live up to it. Live all you can; it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life.

Novelist-Citizen of Two Countries Interpreter of his Generation on both Sides of the Sea.

She feels in italics and thinks in CAPITALS.

Never say you know the last word about any human heart.

He is the same old sausage, fizzing and sputtering in his own grease.