... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

The question we do not see when we are young is whether we own pride or are owned by it.

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and also a source of weariness beyond description.

You can't be a little bit saintly any more than you can be a little bit pregnant.

The writer's advantage, in some respects, over those whose expression lies in other fields, is in the privilege of a double - sometimes a triple - living. Pleasure multiplied in the mirrors of words, and pain siphoned off in words.

New gods arise when they are needed.

Lord make me satisfied with small things. Make me content to live on the outside of life. God make me love the rind!