There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future.

Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther.

One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual.

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.