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

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery ... He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift.... There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

The more decisions that you are forced to make alone, the more you are aware of your freedom to choose.

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

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

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.

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