For what human ill does dawn not seem to be alternative?

Marriage is a bribe to make a housekeeper think she's a householder.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

But soon we shall die and all memory of those five will have left the earth, and we ourselves shall be loved for a while and forgotten. But the love will have been enough; all those impulses of love return to the love that made them. Even memory is not necessary for love. There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

A dramatist is one who from his earliest years has found that sheer gazing at the shocks and counter-shocks among people is quite sufficiently engrossing without having to encase it in comment.

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.