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.

Madness might sometimes give access to a kind of knowledge. But was not a guarantee.

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

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

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.

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

That was the trouble with experience; it taught you that most people were capable of anything, so that loyalty was never quite on firm ground -- or, rather, became a matter of pardoning offenses instead of denying their existence.