Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength.

In order to obtain and hold power, a man must love it.

Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn.

They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox.

He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty.

There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead.