There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

Hope is a talent like any other.

Sadistic literature is not only inhumane. It is anti-human.

The gesture with which one generation guards the next is the movement, and the only time we see it clearly, of life itself.

The strangest thing about life is not its frightful cruelty, but that it can be gentle.

Any marriage worth the name is no better than a series of beginnings - many of them abortive.

As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.