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.

Childhood is the fiery furnace in which we are melted down to essentials and that essential shaped for good.

The past is never where you think you left it.

The nose is surely one of the most impressionable, if not positively erotic, of all our unruly members.

I've been called a stylist until I really could tear my hair out. And I simply don't believe in style. The style is you.

I was right not to be afraid of any thief but myself, who will end by leaving me nothing.

I have a great deal of religious symbolism in my stories because I have a very deep sense of religion and also I have a religious training. And I suppose you don't say, `I'm going to have the flowering judas tree stand for betrayal,' but of course it does.