Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.

At the age of fourteen I discovered writing as an escape from a world of reality in which I felt acutely uncomfortable.

You said, 'They’re harmless dreamers and they’re loved by the people.' 'What,' I asked you, 'is harmless about a dreamer, and what,' I asked you, 'is harmless about the love of the people? Revolution only needs good dreamers who remember their dreams.

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

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

How beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.