few things are more rewarding than a child's open uncalculating devotion.
Modern war and modern civilisation are utterly incompatible...one or the other must go.
It never seems to occur to anybody that some women may not want to find husbands.
The best prose is written by authors who see their universe with a poet’s eyes.
I can think of few important movements for reform in which success was won by any method other than that of an energetic minority presenting the indifferent majority with a fait accompli, which was then accepted.
If the would-be writer studies people in their everyday lives and discovers how to make his characters in their quieter moods interesting to his readers, he will have learned far more than he can ever learn from the constant presentation of crises.