“There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.”

“But my love had no intentions: it knew the future. All one could do was try to make the future less hard, to break the future gently when it came.”

“From childhood I had never believed in permanence, and yet I had longed for it. Always I was afraid of losing happiness. This month, next year...death was the only absolute value in my world. Lose life and one would lose nothing again forever.”

“It is one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhilaration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.”

“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of exhiliration; there are always comparisons which can be made with worse times: even in danger and misery the pendulum swings.”

“The moment comes when a character does or says something you hadn't thought about. At that moment he's alive and you leave it to him.”

“For a moment I had felt elation as on the instant of waking before one remembers.”