I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.

All fantasy should have a solid base in reality.

In every human being one or the other of these two instincts is predominant: the active or positive instinct to offer hospitality, the negative or passive inst…

Everywhere he found his precept checkmated by his example.

He is thinner, taller, younger - more boyish-looking - than expected, but he is also the shyest and most nervous human being I have ever seen. He chews not mer…

I sat reading in these chairs and felt somehow, in an abstract rather than a religious way, that suffering shapes you. Not only my own religious thought, but t…

She brightened. 'Last week I ran a personal ad in the Guardian. I answered a few too. I'm not looking for sex; I feel too vulnerable for that. I just want some…