It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to

Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

Between optimism and pessimism, there is confidence in God.

Democracy! Bah! When I hear that word I reach for my feather boa!

If we seek to keep the past alive, we end, I think, by distorting it.

A Socrates in every classroom.

Never do anything that someone else can and will do, when there is so much of importance to be done which others cannot or will not do.

As an actor, you can have your own backstory and prepare all the details that you need to know for your character.

I think that there is a certain schizophrenic aspect to my own relation to the Bible.

I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

I want you to like me, but I don't care if you don't.

Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!