anger and jealousy are spasms of the nerves, not of the heart.

To mourn was distressing, but to endeavor to mourn and fail was worse than distress.

... beauty, like ecstasy, has always been hostile to the commonplace. And the commonplace, under its popular label of the normal,has been the supreme authority for Homo sapiens since the days when he was probably arboreal.

What fools people are when they think they can make two lives belong together by saying words over them.

No matter how vital experience might be while you lived it, no sooner was it ended and dead than it became as lifeless as the piles of dry dust in a school history book.

Do you know there is always a barrier between me and any man or woman who does not like dogs?

a successful politician does not have convictions; he has emotions.