The art of fiction is one of constant seduction. You must persuade the reader on page 1 to start reading - on page 50, or page 150 and yes, on page 850.
Reality in strong doses frightens.
The learned man knows that he is ignorant.
Wisdom is the health of the soul.
I'm religiously opposed to religion.
The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.
To love another person is to see the face of God.
Possessing by letting go of things was a secret of ownership unknown to youth.
When we look at a rock what we are seeing is not the rock, but the effect of the rock upon us.
The # poverty of being unwanted, unloved and uncared for is the greatest poverty.
That's how women are, always studyin' each other and wonderin' how they look up 'gainst the next.