Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over.

We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-

Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.