I can remember how when I was young I believed death to be a phenomenon of the body; now I know it to be merely a function of the mind -- and that of the minds who suffer the bereavement. The nihilists say it is the end; the fundamentalists, the beginning; when in reality it is no more than a single tenant or family moving out of a tenement or a town.

He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow.

In Europe, being an artist is a form of behavior. In America, it's an excuse for a form of behavior.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

He was looking at her from behind the smiling that wasn't smiling but was something you were not supposed to see beyond.

Success is feminine and like a woman, if you cringe before her, she will override you