Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.
You make what seems a simple choice: choose a man or a job or a neighborhood- and what you have chosen is not a man or a job or a neighborhood, but a life.
In their sympathies, children feel nearer animals than adults
Nothing is so dear as what you're about to leave.
The emotion, the ecstasy of love, we all want, but God spare us the responsibility.
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.