We are minor in everything but our passions.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

somehow at parties at which one stays standing up one seems to require to be more concentratedly intelligent than one does at those at which one can sit down.

Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Hope was always hard to find in the darkness.

Scripture has the remedy for sinfulness.

I write human stories. I write about people. Not as a product of their environment. But from the stance that everybody is made of the same thing.

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven.

Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn't got one.

Lockheed! You found me! You are the best X-Dragon ever.

As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

I love these pet names," she said, gazing soulfully up into his eyes, "Nitwit. Sap skull. Termagant. How they make my heart flutter!

Then came the churches, then came the schools, then came the lawyers, then came the rules.