The worst thing about love between human beings is that when you are prepared to love them they don't want it; when they do its you who can't bear th… - Patrick White

— Los ateos, por lo general, lo son por razones mezquinas — aseveró Voss — . La más mezquina de todas ellas estriba en su propia falta de grandeza espiritual, que les impide concebir la idea de un Poder Divino.

Such was the texture of her marble.

[In a description of Laura Trevelyan.]

I always like to write three versions of a book. The first is always agony and chaos; no one could understand it. With the second you get the shape, it's more or less all right. I write both of those in longhand. The third draft I type out with two fingers: it's for refining of meaning, additions and subtractions. I think my novels usually begin with characters; you have them floating about in your head and it may be years before they get together in a situation. Characters interest me more than situations.