Adulthood is not an age, but a stage of knowledge of self.

The word is the most imprecise of signs. Only a science-obsessed age could fail to comprehend that this is its great virtue, not its defect.

These last few days I've felt Godless. I've felt cleaner, less muddled, less blind. I still believe in a God. But he's so remote, so cold, so mathematical. I see that we have to live as if there is no God. Prayer and worship and singing hymns-all silly and useless.

The dead live." "How do they live?" "By love.

There are some men who are consoled by the idea that there are women less attractive than their wives; and others who are haunted by the knowledge that there are more attractive.

You put up with your voice and speak with it because you haven't any choice. But it's what you say that counts.

They looked down on her; and she looked up through them.