Religion is different from everything else; because in religion seeking is finding.

Claude Wheeler opened his eyes before the sun was up and vigorously shook his younger brother, who lay in the other half of the same bed.

Of all the bewildering things about a new country, the absence of human landmarks is one of the most depressing and disheartening.

People live through such pain only once. Pain comes again—but it finds a tougher surface.

Let people go on talking as they like, and we will go on living as we think best.

There are only two or three human stories, and they go on repeating themselves as fiercely as if they had never happened before.

So long as a novelist works selfishly for the pleasure of creating character and situation corresponding to his own illusions, ideals and intuitions, he will always produce something worth while and natural. Directly he takes himself too seriously and begins for the alleged benefit of humanity an elaborate dissection of complexes, he evolves a book that is more ridiculous and tiresome than the most conventional cold cream girl novel of yesterday.