I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

Optimism is the content of small men in high places.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.