Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

... if one can remember without loving, then couldn't one love without remembering?

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

The only way to make a husband over according to one's ideas ... would be to adopt him at an early age, say four.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant.

every act of one's life is the unavoidable result of every act that has preceded it.