We are hardly ever as strong as that which we create.

from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad.

I have been treated better than I should have been---not by life in general nor by the machinery of things but by women.

Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality.

Maybe when I get in the grave, things will be beautiful.

In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners.

That’s when I first learned that it wasn’t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.