Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

I think being a mother is the cruelest thing in the world.

What are friends for, if not to help bear our sins?

Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it

Everything can't be explained by some general biological phrase.

Lies, injustice, and hypocrisy are a part of every ordinary community. Most people achieve a sort of protective immunity, a kind of callousness, toward them. If they didn't, they couldn't endure.

New York's the lonesomest place in the world if you don't know anybody.