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

Be bold, and try not to fall in love with your faults. Don't be so afraid of giving yourself away, either, for if yo write, you must. And if you can't face that, better not write.

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.

It is such a relief to be told the truth.

You can't write about people out of textbooks, and you can't use jargon. You have to speak clearly and simply and purely in a language that a six-year-old child can understand; and yet have the meanings and the overtones of language, and the implications, that appeal to the highest intelligence.

Death is loneliness in its purest form.