if you listen long enough - or is it deep enough? - the silence of a lover can speak plainer than any words! Only you must know how to listen. Pain must have taught you how.

to everything there is an end - except fear.

Human beings don't show, any more than cities at dusk, their real necessities! And yet if you looked -- past the circle of outside lights, through the street walls still standing -- into the want and emptiness within!

People who talk of new lives believe there will be no new troubles.

We cannot alter facts, but we can alter our ways of looking at them.

A red-hot belief in eternal glory is probably the best antidote to human panic that there is.

If a writer is true to his characters they will give him his plot. Observations must play second fiddle to integrity.