Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.

My two fingers on a typewriter have never connected with my brain. My hand on a pen does. A fountain pen, of course. Ball-point pens are only good for filling out forms on a plane.

Hate is a lack of imagination.

Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple, however cruel; our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt

Innocence always calls mutely for protection when we would be so much wiser to guard ourselves against it: innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

Innocence is like a dumb leper who has lost his bell, wandering the world, meaning no harm.

A story has no beginning or end: arbitrarily one chooses that moment of experience from which to look back or from which to look ahead.

A single feat of daring can alter the whole conception of what is possible.

Sweet are the thoughts that savor of content: the quiet mind is richer than a crown.

People who like quotes love meaningless generalizations

There is no limit to what God can do through us if we are a yielded and purified people.

True, there are photographers who are failed artists, but so are most artists.

Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Marriage, even the best marriages are tough.

Sometimes we praise the way things used to be in order to blame the present, and we esteem what is no longer in order to scorn what is.

Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

When you're married, it's one person. That's one more than a monk. It's not that different.

We need books...because we are all, in the private kingdoms of our hearts, desperate for the company of a wise, true friend.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.