A marriage is likely to be called happy if neither party ever expected to get much happiness out of it.
I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in
No one knows how to love anybody's trouble.
I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.
Delving deeper into character's motivations one thing I always find helpful is to imagine the person as a child, imagine them at a very early stage, prior to having all of the things taken away from them, or all of the habits put onto them that they end up having, and then going from there.
Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.
The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing.
It is frightfully hard to explain to Protestants that if you give Roman Catholics a good job and a good house, they will live like Protestants. . . they will refuse to have 18 children. . . . If you treat Roman Catholics with due consideration and kindness, they will live like Protestants in spite of the authoritative nature of their Church.