All the jokes about men sitting down on their hats are really theological jokes; they are concerned with the Dual Nature of Man. They refer to the primary paradox that man is superior to all the things around him and yet is at their mercy.

When people cease to believe in God, they don't believe in nothing; they believe in anything.

I know too much," he said. "That's what's the matter with me. That's what's the matter with all of us, and the whole show; we know too much. Too much about one another; too much about ourselves.

Passion makes every detail important.

One can sometimes do good by being the right person in the wrong place.

When you have really exhausted an experience you always reverence and love it.

She was not in the least afraid of loneliness, because she was not afraid of devils. I think they were afraid of her.