And even a liar can be scared into telling the truth, same as honest man can be tortured into telling a lie.

The most important thing is insight, that is to be - curious - to wonder, to mull, and to muse why it is that man does what he does.

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

It's all now you see: tomorrow began yesterday and yesterday won't be over until tomorrow.

the problems of the human heart in conflict with itself which alone can make good writing because only that is worth writing about, worth the agony and the sweat

I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.

The next time you try to seduce anyone, don't do it with talk, with words. Women know more about words than men ever will. And they know how little they can ever possibly mean.