we know that the Furies do not come uninvited.

. . . all that she had had, and all that she had missed, were lost together, and were twice lost in this landslide of remembered losses.

I look upon literature as an art, and I believe that if you misuse it or abuse it, it will leave you. It is not a thing that you can nail down and use as you want. You have to let it use you, too.

Death always leaves one singer to mourn.

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

Civilization, let me tell you what it is. First the soldier, then the merchant, then the priest, then the lawyer. The merchant hires the soldier and priest to conquer the country for him. First the soldier, he is a murderer; then the priest, he is a liar; then the merchant, he is a thief; and they all bring in the lawyer to make their laws and defend their deeds, and there you have your civilization!

Death cancels our engagements, but it does not affect the consequences of our acts in life.