He remembered that she was pretty, and, more, that she had a special grace in the intimacy of life. She had the secret of individuality which excites… - Joseph Conrad

The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

In order to move others deeply we must deliberately allow ourselves to be carried away beyond the bounds of our normal sensibility

I don't like work — no man does — but I like what is in the work — the chance to find yourself. Your own reality — for yourself not for others — what no other man can ever know. They can only see the mere show, and never can tell what it really means.