Dissipated men need one trustworthy friend. - Thornton Wilder

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other.

The future author is one who discovers that language, the exploration and manipulation of the resources of language, will serve him in winning through to his way.

Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.