The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

There is balance in life, but not fairness.

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

... one doesn't really profit from experience; one merely learns to predict the next mistake.

Marriage is like democracy - it doesn't really work, but it's all we've been able to come up with.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

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