It is never wise to turn aside from knowing, however the knowing comes.

The place for truth is not in the facts of a novel; it is in the feelings.

To remember love after long sleep; to turn again to poetry after a year in the market place, or to youth after resignation to drowsy and stiffening age; to remember what once you thought life could hold, after telling over with muddied and calculating fingers what it has offered; this is music, made after long silence. The soul flexes its wings, and, clumsy as any fledgling, tries the air again

It seems to me you can be awfully happy in this life if you stand aside and watch and mind your own business, and let other people do as they like about damaging themselves and one another. You go on kidding yourself that you're impartial and tolerant and all that, then all of a sudden you realize you're dead, and you've never been alive at all.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.

The sense of smell is the hair-trigger of memory.

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.