there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

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.

I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it’s not pretty.

and love was lightning and remembrance

I have loved you woman as surely as I have named you rust and sand and nylon.

Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know.

Only the boring get bored