There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Life cracked like ice!

Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges.

What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?

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

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.