I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me.

Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so.

The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.