Between our birth and death we may touch understanding, As a moth brushes a window with its wing.
There may always be another reality to make fiction of the truth we think we've arrived at.
Comedy is an escape, not from truth but from despair a narrow escape into faith.
We must each find our separate meaning in the persuasion of our days until we meet in the meaning of the world.
Who apart From ourselves can see any difference between Our victories and our defeats?
What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.
Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.
The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost look as much like home as we can.
MARGARET Have any of you Seen that poor child Alizon? I think she must be lost.NICHOLAS Who isn't? The best thing we can do is to make wherever we're lost in look as much like home as we can. Now don'...
Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.
I must tell you I've just been reborn.Nicholas, you always think you can do things better than your mother. You can be sure you were born quite adequately on the first occasion.