The most wonderful opportunity which life offers is to be human.

Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies.

Everything was for tomorrow, but tomorrow never came. The present was only a bridge and on this bridge they are still groaning, as the world groans, and not one idiot ever thinks of blowing up the bridge.

...the wise man knows that every experience is to be viewed as a blessing.

All growth is a leap in the dark.

I am living at the Villa Borghese. There is not a crumb of dirt anywhere, nor a chair misplaced. We are all alone here and we are dead.

It isn't the oceans which cut us off from the world - it's the American way of looking at things.