"Money making is like a god possessing a priest. He never will leave you, until he has occupied you, wholly changed th…"

"The best way to sharpen a knife is not to whet one side of it only. And neither can you solve a riddle by considering…"

"People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics."

"But what she also came to know was that someone somewhere would always see in any kind of difference, an excuse to be…"

"We are victims of our history and our present. They place too many obstacles in the way of love. And we cannot enjoy …"

"Sissie knew that she had to stop herself from crying. Why weep for them? In fact, stronger in her was the desire to a…"

"it is quite clear now that all of the peoples of the earth have not always wished one another well. Indeed we are cer…"

"Clearly, she was enjoying herself to see that woman hurt. It was nothing she had desired. Nor did it seem as if she c…"

"Guilt is born in the same hour with pleasure, like anything in this universe and its enemy."

"The very old certainly do not go back on lunch remains but they do bite back at old conversational topics."