If she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure that IT could not withstand love.

To be born is to start the journey towards death.

To create a work of art, great or small, is work, hard work, and work requires discipline and order.

I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.

Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts?" I do face facts," Meg said. They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.

Like and equal are two entirely different things.

The deeper and richer a personality is, the more full it is of paradox and contradiction. It is only a shallow character who offers us no problems of contrast.