It is not true that women cannot keep secrets. Where they love, they can be trusted to death and beyond, against all sense and reason. It is their weakness, and their great strength.

The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try

I reached for sleep and drew it round me like a blanket muffling pain and thought together in the merciful dark

You never know how you'll turn out till you've been down to half a dollar and no prospects.

Every man carries the seed of his own death, and you will not be more than a man. You will have everything; you cannot have more.

The gods only go with you if you put yourself in their path. And that takes courage.

Have you ever thought, when something dreadful happens, 'a moment ago things were not like this; let it be then, not now, anything but now'? And you try and try to remake then, but you know you can't. So you try to hold the moment quite still and not let it move on and show itself.