The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day. It is this which puzzles the longshoreman about the clerk, the Londoner about the bushman.

Carol was discovering that the one thing that can be more disconcerting than intelligent hatred is demanding love. 'She supposed that she was being gracefully …

It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than oth…

'I wonder if you can understand the 'fun' of making a beautiful thing, the pride and satisfaction of it, and the holiness!' The company glanced doubtfully at o…