Love is the last and secret name of all the virtues.

Words are the most subtle symbols which we possess and our human fabric depends on them.

It was like hunting fish with an underwater gun, a sport which he had once been foolish enough to try. At one moment there is the fish - graceful, mysterious, desirable and free - and the next moment there is nothing but struggling and blood and confusion.

Nothing is more maddening than being questioned by the object of one's interest about the object of hers, should that object not be you.

Of course men play roles, but women play roles too, blanker ones. They have, in the play of life, fewer good lines.

being homosexual doesn't determine a man's whole character any more than being heterosexual does.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.