If we reduce social life to the smallest possible unit we will find that there is no social life in the company of one.

It's not that you aren't likable. On the contrary. You are. It's just that one wonders if you haven't made a career out of being so likable.

I don't fret over lost time - I can always use the situations in a novel.

Like nature, our economic system remains, in the long run, stable and rational...We welcome the inevitable seasons of our economy! How foolish of us.

I collect human relationships very much the way others collect fine art.

Physical comfort has nothing to do with any other comfort.

Chance was to work in the garden, where he would care for plants and grasses and trees which grew there peacefully. He would be as one on them: quiet, open hearted in the sunshine and heavy when it rained.