No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

I've found that I can always do the things that people do in books. Really they are the only things I can do.

Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering.