I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

It takes two to make an accident.

Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk.

If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much.

I'm not much like myself any more.