there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great.

That was all a man needed: hope. It was lack of hope that discouraged a man.

love be damned now as love was damned when it first arrived.

You've got to rise from the floor alone or fall back alone.

I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes.

one more creature dizzy with love