The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are respons… - Katherine Anne Porter

People can't hear anything except when it's nonsense. Then they hear every word. If you try to talk sense, they think you don't mean it, or don't know anything anyway, or it's not true, or it's against religion, or it's not what they are used to reading in the newspapers...

The past is never where you think you left it: you are not the same person you were yesterday — oh

No more war, no more plague, only the dazed silence that follows the ceasing of the heavy guns; noiseless houses with the shades drawn, empty streets, the dead cold light of tomorrow. Now there would be time for everything.