They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being.

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

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

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

Love must be learned and learned again; There is no end.

One of the marks of a gift is to have the courage of it.