Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

How strange to have failed as a social creature—even criminals do not fail that way—they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

You can stroke people with words.

This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes.

"What are you going to do?" "Can't say - run for president, write -" "Greenwich Village?" "Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink."