Before you react, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you criticize, wait. Before you quit, try.

All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard.

The world breaks everyone or nearly everyone, of their childish illusions, assumptions and wishes, often painfully and afterwards due to the personal growth in practical experience, insight and the resulting wisdom many are strong at the broken places just like mended broken bones often are, and some people even have the great insight to be grateful for the purifying fire.

If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them.

Oh Jake," Brett said, "We could have had such a damned good time together." Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?

The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers.

Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere.