The human liver, unless it is Graham Greene's, can take so much and no more.
As one grows old I think one becomes more attached to family things- to houses and graves.
There were occasions when Shakespeare was a very bad writer indeed. You can see how often in books of quotations. People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations.
A major character has to come somehow out of the unconscious.
I doubt if ever one ceases to love, but one can cease to be in love as easily as one can outgrow an author one admired as a boy.
It was not merely that his brother was dead. His brain, too young to realize the full paradox, wondered with an obscure self- pity why it was that the pulse of his brother's fear went on and on, when...
He's satisfied with himself. If you have a soul you can't be satisfied.