...for in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.

I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don't want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits.

No one is ever holy without suffering.

The languor of Youth - how unique and quintessential it is! How quickly, how irrecoverably, lost!

Aunt Fanny tells me you made great friends with Mr. Mottram. I'm sure he can't be very nice.''I don't think he is, ' said Julia. 'I don't know that I like nice people

Do you want to change?" "It's the only evidence of life.

When the waterholes were dry, people sought to drink at the mirage.

Oh, my darling, why is it that love makes me hate the world? It's supposed to have quite the opposite effect. I feel as though all mankind, and God, too, were in a conspiracy against us.

If she looked further than the wedding, it was to see marriage as the beginning of individual existence, this skirmish from which one one's spurs, from which one set out on the true quests of life.

If it could only be like this always – always summer, always alone, the fruit always ripe and Aloysius in a good temper...

Instruction would be wasted on me. Just to give me the form and I'll sign on the dotted line.

As time goes on, new and remoter aspects of truth are discovered which can seldom be fitted into creeds that are changeless.

A strong person has faithand builds for the future

We kiss with our eyes closed but our senses open, infusing the spaces between with the elements of the other.

The cruellest lies are often told in silence.

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch the renewal of life - this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Money is always there but the pockets change; it is not in the same pockets after a change, and that is all there is to say about money.

I went in search of a bad person; I found none as I, seeing myself, found me the worst.

One of the biggest gifts that you can give your daughter is to show her that you love what you do.

If you die and i live there's no life for me back in District 12. You're my whole life. I would never be happy again.

It's no longer a fad to be down for the young Black male. Everybody wants to go past. Like the gangster stuff, it just got exploited.