The true defense against wealth is not a fear of wealth - of its fragility and of the vicious consequences that it can bring - the true defense against wealth is an indifference to money.

No adultery is bloodless.

Today, as never before, the fates of men are so intimately linked to one another that a disaster for one is a disaster for everybody.

Every day silence harvests its victims. Silence is a mortal illness.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

Over my real sorrows I never weep.

And we are a people without tears. The things that moved our parents do not move us at all.

My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings.

We become adolescents when the words that adults exchange with one another become intelligible to us.

I begin to suspect that England is the most melancholy country in the world.

We don't speak of it, or react to it. Paralyzed in a reality of uncertainty and madness, this is where we are.

The mightiest power of death is not that it can make people die, but that it can make people left behind want to stop living, she thinks, without remembering where she heard that.

Some people say home is where you come from. But I think it’s a place you need to find, like it’s scattered and you pick pieces of it up along the way.

The sole life which a man can lose is that which he is living at the moment.

Positive, adj.: Mistaken at the top of one's voice.

Search for the perfect church if you will; when you find it, join it, and realize that on that day it becomes something less than perfect.

To drink away sorrow.

Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us.

Middle age is when it takes longer to rest than to get tired.

Action is the stream, and contemplation is the spring.