This free will business is a bit terrifying anyway. It's almost pleasanter to obey, and make the most of it.

If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame.

We cannot bear to regard ourselves simply as playthings of blind chance, we cannot admit to feeling ourselves abandoned.

Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.

A long association-prolonged human contact, when a man and woman live together-this ends up producing a sort of rot, a poison.

It so difficult to know what the people we love really need.

To believe in God is to know that all the rules will be fair, and that there will be wonderful surprises.