The strong take from the weak, but the smart take from the strong.

Love lost is a special kind of failure, I think. It's a reminder that some consummations, no matter how devoutly wished for, never come; that some apes will never be men, not in all the world's ages.

The only things people can ever know about you are the ones that you let them see

...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.

I'd begun to realize that there was an unspoken predjudice among book-learned people, a secret conviction they all seemed to share, that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality, and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses can correct it.

The two hardest things to contemplate in life ... are failure and age; those are one and the same.

Adulthood it a glacier encroaching quietly on youth. When it arrives, the stamp of childhood suddenly freezes, capturing us for good in the image of our last act, the pose we struck when the ice of age set in.