Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight.

I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always.

A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair.

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

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives.

Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.