There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

It must be a fault in me that I am not gravely shocked at the sins of others unless they personally affect me.

The best style is the style you don't notice.

If people waited to know one another before they married, the world wouldn't be as overpopulated as it is now.

The average American can get into the kingdom of heaven much more easily than he can get into the Boulevard St. Germain.

Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

Often the best way to overcome desire is to satisfy it.