He is every other inch a gentleman.

I am not so repelled by Communism: an element of Communism in politics is necessary and inevitable. In any involved society there must be a feeling that something must be done about poverty - which is the basis of communism.

Birds sat on the telegraph wires that spanned the river as the black notes sit on a staff of music.

If the whole human race lay in one grave, the epitaph on its headstone might well be: 'It seemed like a good idea at the time.'

I wonder if we are all wrong about each other, if we are just composing unwritten novels about the people we meet?

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Nobody likes having salt rubbed into their wounds, even if it is the salt of the earth.