Under the thinning fog the surf curled and creamed, almost without sound, like a thought trying to form inself on the edge of consciousness.

I don’t mind if you don’t like my manners. They’re pretty bad. I grieve over them during the long winter evenings.

Neither of the two people in the room paid any attention to the way I came in, although only one of them was dead.

I sat down on the edge of a deep soft chair and looked at Mrs Regan. She was worth a stare. She was trouble.

It was a smooth silvery voice that matched her hair. It had a tiny tinkle in it, like bells in a doll's house. I thought that was silly as soon as I thought of it.

You're broke, eh?"I been shaking two nickels together for a month, trying to get them to mate.

He didn't know the right people. That's all a police record means in this rotten crime-ridden country.

This dissociation from the body extends to emotional disengagement. Without access to his feelings a man can’t help but lose track of who he is, what his priorities are and what is normal for him.

The theatre was created to tell people the truth about life and the social situation.

God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of money and large armies.

The person who gives you your first job is so important in any industry.

The purpose of poetry is to remind us how difficult it is to remain just one person, for our house is open, there are no keys in the doors, and invisible guests come in and out at will.

I don't think I'm ever going to have the kind of life or schedule that I can really have a steady way of doing things.

It's not enough to say we need to love each other, you have to go behind that and say we need to change these policies, we need to fight, we need to protest, we need to agitate for change.

A historian is often only a journalist facing backwards.

The problem isn't to learn to love humanity, but to learn to love those members of it who happen to be at hand.

Nonsense. Space is blue and birds fly through it.