Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

The worst thing in the world is a bitter woman. That's one thing about your mother, she's never been bitter.

Vagueness and procrastination are ever a comfort to the frail in spirit.

Affairs, ... , like everything else, ask too much.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?