Refecting on the high divorce rate in America as contrasted with England "American women expect to find in their husbands a perfection that English women only hope to find in their butlers

Love is what happens to men and women who don't know each other.

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

A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?

Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence.

I don't think of the past. The only thing that matters is the everlasting present.

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes...