Winning children (who appear so guileless) are children who have discovered how effective charm and modesty and a delicately calculated spontaneity are in winning what they want.

A good writer preserves an air of freedom in his prose, so that the reader won't know how a story will end - even if he's reading a history book.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

Every good thing in the world stands on the razor-edge of danger.

Hope, like faith, is nothing if it is not courageous; it is nothing if it is not ridiculous.

There is no drunkenness equal to that of remembering whispered words in the night.

All that we know about those we have loved and lost is that they would wish us to remember them with a more intensified realization of their reality. What is essential does not die but clarifies. The highest tribute to the dead is not grief but gratitude.