The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

His own life seemed so solitary, a fragile column supporting nothing amidst the wreckage of the years.

A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lillies of the swamp.

Imagination takes humility, love and great courage.

There are all these people here I don't know by sight or by name. And we pass alongside each other and don't have any connection. And they don't know me and I don't know them. And now I'm leaving town and there are all these people I will never know.

Sunday afternoons are the longest afternoons of all.

I have never gone to a doctor in my adult life, feeling instinctively that doctors meant either cutting or, just as bad, diet.