A love affair is like a short story--it has a beginning, a middle, and an end. The beginning was easy, the middle might drag, invaded by commonplace, but the end, instead of being decisive and well knit with that element of revelatory surprise as a well-written story should be, it usually dissipated in a succession of messy and humiliating anticlimaxes.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

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

Nothing any good isn't hard.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.