In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life.

So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

For what it’s worth, it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be.

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.