The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

The tragedy is not that love doesn't last. The tragedy is the love that lasts.

Human beings need unhappiness at least as much as they need happiness.

For most people it's easier to support an eminent person in deserved disgrace than an obscure one who has been wronged.

A poet or novelist will invent interruptions to avoid long consecutive days at the ordained page; and of these the most pernicious are other kinds of writing -- articles, lectures, reviews, a wide correspondence.

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.