Under cover of her silence he pressed her arm closely to his side; and, as they stood at the hotel door, he felt that they had escaped from their lives and duties, escaped from home and friends and run away together with wild and radiant hearts to a new adventure.

No one would think he'd make such a beautiful corpse.

To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.

I wanted real adventures to happen to myself. But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.

The incompatibility of aquacity with the erratic originality of genius.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods.