Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience...

The real loneliness is living among all these kind people who only ask one to pretend!

Each time you happen to me all over again.

Archer had always been inclined to think that chance and circumstance played a small part in shaping people's lots compared with their innate tendency to have things happen to them.

It frightened him to think what must have gone to the making of her eyes.

..but it seemed to him that the tie between husband and wife, if breakable in prosperity, should be indissoluble in misfortune.

The taste of the usual was like cinders in his mouth, and there were moments when he felt as if he were being buried alive under his future.

It seems stupid to have discovered America only to make it into a copy of another country.

Is there nowhere in an American house where one may be by one's self?

She threw back her head with a laugh that made her chins ripple like little waves.

Conservatives cherished it for being small and inconvenient, and thus keeping out the "new people" whom New York was beginning to dread and yet be drawn to

Give a man a hoe and he is something to exploit. Give him a book and he is something to fear.

The voices in my head wouldn't shut up, so I let them write their story.

Smile at a stranger. See what happens.

The test of your character is what it takes to stop you.

The myths about Hades and the gods, though they are pure invention, help to make men virtuous.

Ares (The God of War) hates those who hesitate.

Today I am determined to go through the day with ought hurting myself, or another, with my thoughts or my actions.

For me context is the key - from that comes the understanding of everything.

No use going to class unless you go to the library.

Once we see an aspect of what we or someone else does as something that happens, we lose our grip on the idea that it has been done and that we can judge the doer and not just the happening.