The knowledge that she would never be loved in return acted upon her ideas as a tide acts upon cliffs.

A dramatist is one who believes that the pure event, an action involving human beings, is more arresting than any comment that can be made upon it.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

There is no need for me to curse you -the murderer survives the victim only to learn that it was himself that he longed to be rid of. Hatred is self-hatred.

Man is not an end but a beginning. We are at the beginning of the second week. We are children of the eighth day

There is nothing like eavesdropping to show you that the world outside your head is different from the world inside your head.