I get so tired of moral bookkeeping.

Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;...but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.

We pity people too often for the wrong reasons.

A novel is really like a symphony where instrument after instrument has to come in at its own time, and no other.

You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

With the most infinite tenderness I have ever known in my life, he put his arms around me, gently, gently, and I embraced him around the neck, and we touched.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.