“Makes of men date, like makes of cars...”

“At Spezia when I am angry I go full of smoke inside, but when you make me angry I see everything.”

“You must show him your monkey: I am sure he will like that.”

“The happy passive nature, locked up with itself like a mirror in an airy room, reflects what goes on but demands not to be approached.”

“She thought she need not worry about her youth; it wasted itself spontaneously, like sunshine elsewhere or firelight in an empty room.”

“I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.”

“Reason can never reconcile one to life: nothing allays the wants one cannot explain.”