Writing does not exclude the full life; it demands it.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.

There is no such thing as an exact synonym and no such thing as an unmixed motive.

Could she fall so low? No, there were limits, and she believed she still knew where some of them were.

we do know now, all of us, that the most appalling cruelties are committed by apparently virtuous governments in expectation of a great good to come, never learning that the evil done now is the sure destroyer of the expected good.

Freedom, remember, is not the same as liberty.