We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.