It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

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

Courage to me means ploughing through that dull gray mist that comes down on life-not only overriding people and circumstances but overriding the bleakness of living. A sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things...My courage is faith-faith in the eternal resilience of me-that joy'll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does, I've got to keep my lips shut and my chin high, and my eyes wide