Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

I have found it easier to identify with the characters who verge upon hysteria, who were frightened of life, who were desperate to reach out to another person. But these seemingly fragile people are the strong people really.

We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.

The nervous system of any age or nation is its creative workers, its artists. And if that nervous system is profoundly disturbed by its environment, the work it produces will inescapably reflect the disturbances, sometimes obliquely and sometimes with violent directness.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

Morning can always be counted on to bring us back to a more realistic level.

A prayer for the wild at heart kept in cages.