A morbid propensity that causes great suffering in domestic life is often curiously infectious to the very person for whom it creates most suffering.

You don’t know a woman until you have had a letter from her.

Suspense is torture ... but delightful--or there'd be no gambling in the world.

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

Absurdly improbable things are quite as liable to happen in real life as in weak literature.

The Futurists?.... Well, of course, they are already past.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

She could carry off anything; and some people said that she did.

She suspected him of infidelity, with and without reason, morning, noon and night.

Most people now seem to treasure anything they value in proportion to the extent that it's followed about and surrounded by the vulgar public.

It's always something to get one's wish, even if the wish is a failure.

When do I see a photograph, when a reflection?

As long as there are people suffering, how can I not be happy?

Thank God I didn't put my career over family. That would have been the biggest mistake of my life. I'm really happy it went the way it did.

If you don't have a moral question governing your society, then you don't have a society that is going to survive.

We are not primarily called to do something or go somewhere; we are called to Someone.

I call it suffering and pain, they call it entertainment.

That nation is proudest and noblest and most exalted which has the greatest number of really great men.

There's the physical life and the voice, but at some point you abandon all of that, you know what the spirit of the person is and you let it descend and just get on with it.

Gideon knew exactly what I liked. Not because I’d told him, but because he paid attention to everything about me.

When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.