If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.
I just couldn’t make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
So there was not an “I” anymore-not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect-save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more.
I don’t much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.
Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.
I’ve noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That’s because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.
Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel. Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.
Intelligence is measured by a person’s ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.
Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there.
I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe – and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me.
Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream’s shadow.
They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.
How different it all was from what you’d planned.
You’ve got an awfully kissable mouth.
I hope I haven’t given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.
I found something! Courage – just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.
They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.
It was too late – everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved – to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that...