A child is an adult temporarily enduring conditions which exclude the possibility of happiness.

Here lies the real terror in the international war of ideologies; that a city knows not whom it entertains.

There is in every one of us an unending see-saw between the will to live and the will to die.

... to lovers innumerable things do not matter.

... there has never been a period in history when there have been necessary killings which has not been instantly followed by a period when there have been unnecessary killings.

The choice between law and justice is an easy one for courageous minds.

Behind it was that vast suspension bridge which always troubles me because it reminds me that in this mechanized age I am as little able to understand my environment as any primitive woman who thinks that a waterfall is inhabited by a spirit, and indeed less so, for her opinion might from a poetical point of view be correct.