Why is it that whenever I hear music I think I’m a bride?

Even the contemplative life is only an effort, Nora my dear, to hide the body so the feet won’t stick out.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.

None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.

This head has risen above its hair in a moment of abandon known only to men who have drawn their feet out of their boots to walk awhile in the corridors of the mind.

I couldn't ever boil potatoes over the heat of your affection. Your love would never bridge a gap; it wouldn't even fill up the hole that the mice came through.