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

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.

Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on.

As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership.

I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.