What was it in the human heart that made you despise a man because he loved you?

She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he had for his muffin. He knew enough anatomy to make pretty certain of getting the carotid artery. And at the same time he wanted to cover her pale, thin face with kisses.

Nothing in the world is permanent, and we’re foolish when we ask anything to last, but surely we’re still more foolish not to take delight in it while we have it.

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

A novelist must preserve a childlike belief in the importance of things which common sense considers of no great consequence.

When a man's in love, he at once makes a pedestal of the Ten Commandments and stands on the top of them with his arms akimbo. When a woman's in love she doesn't care two straws for Thou Shalt and Thou Shalt Not.

I prefer a loose woman to a selfish one and a wanton to a fool.