Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.

If you haven't written a novel by the time you're forty you never will!

Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.

if you wanted to do something absolutely honest, something true, it always turned out to be a thing that had to be done alone.

What a subtle, treacherous thing it was to let yourself go that way! Because once you've started it was terribly difficult to stop; soon you were saying "I'm sorry, of course you're right", and "Whatever you think is best", and "you're the most wonderful and valuable thing int he world", and the next thing you knew all honesty, all truth, was as far away and glimmering, as hopelessly unattainable as the world of the golden people.

I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.

He found it so easy and so pleasant to cry that he didn’t try to stop for a while, until he realized he was forcing his sobs a little, exaggerating their depth with unnecessary shudders. … The whole point of crying is to quit before you coined it up. The whole point of grief itself was to cut it out while it was still honest, while it still meant something. Because the thing was so easily corrupted