Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.

I feel half faded away like some figure in the background of an old picture.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

The entry of a child into any situation changes the whole situation.

The absolute yearning of one human body for another particular body and its indifference to substitutes is one of life's major mysteries.

The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.

The very madness of the scheme protects it.