There is only one true aristocracy . . . and that is the aristocracy of passionate souls!

-You're simple, straightforward and honest, a little bit on the primitive side, I should think. To interest you a woman would have to... -To lay her cards out on the table.

If I am no longer disturbed myself, I will deal less with disturbed people and with violent material. I don't regret having concerned myself with such people, because I think that most of us are disturbed.

Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!

Openings come quickly, sometimes, like blue space in running clouds. A complete overcast, then a blaze of light.

In human character, simplicity doesn't exist except among simpletons.

Somebody said once or wrote, once: 'We're all of us children in a vast kindergarten trying to spell God's name with the wrong alphabet blocks!