Matthew,' she said, 'have you ever loved someone and it became yourself?' For a moment he did not answer. Taking up the decanter he held it to the light. 'Robin can go anywhere, do anything,' Nora continued, 'because she forgets, and I nowhere because I remember.' She came toward him. 'Matthew,' she said, 'you think I have always been like this. Once I was remorseless, but this is another love — it goes everywhere; there is no place for it to stop — it rots me away.

Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Youth is cause, effect is age; so with the thickening of the neck we get data.

One cup poured into another makes different waters; tears shed by one eye would blind if wept into another's eye. The breast we strike in joy is not the breast we strike in pain; any man's smile would be consternation on another's mouth.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

No man needs curing of his individual sickness; his universal malady is what he should look to.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.