Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

...for a moment people set down their glasses in county clubs and speak-easies and thought of their old best dreams.