“The man is only a half himself, the other half is his expression”
“I see that a man cannot give himself up to drinking without being miserable one-half his days and mad the other.”
“Know a man's faith, and you knew at least half the man. Know his wife, and you knew the other half.”
“A writer is, after all, only half his book. The other half is the reader and from the reader the writer learns.”
“A man's power is in the half-light, in the half-seen movements of his hand and the unguessed-at expression of his face. It is the absence of facts tat frightens people: the gap you open, into which they pour their fears, fantasies, desires.”
“A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.”