I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

Lots of scripts are written and not made, even scripts that people want to make.

One alters the past to form the future but there is a real significance to the pattern which finally appears, which resists all further change.

But knowledge does not protect one. Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires. Still, anything can be endured if all humanity is watching. The martyrs prove it. We live in the attention of others. We turn to it as flowers to the sun.

We were moderate, we will never know what it is to spill out our lives.

You’re so American. You believe everything is possible, everything will come. I know differently.

In general, American life is more easy-going. And civic pride, national pride in a cultural sense, is great in America. I think what they esteem in America is character and energy, and being different and superior to other peoples. Of course, every nation feels itself to be superior, but in America it's a jaunty feeling, and in some cases a rather ominous one among the super-patriots.