Our sufferings and weaknesses, in so far as they are personal, are of no literary interest whatsoever. They are only interesting in so far as we can see them as typical of the human condition.

If time were the wicked sheriff in a horse opera, I'd pay for riding lessons and take his gun away.

Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim and on his behalf demand atonement or grant forgiveness; it is the one crime in which society has a direct interest.

You shall love your crooked neighbour, with your crooked heart.

Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings.

Lovers have lived so long with giants and elves, they won't believe again in their own size.