I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

If you are strong enough, there are no precedents.

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.

To the wingless a more interesting phenomenon is their (W/E Egg) dissimilarity in every particular except shape and size.

At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion.