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

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.

...a good friend stands in harm's way for you the second you ask--but a great friend does it without being asked at all.

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.

A son is a promise that time makes to a man,the guarantee every father receives that whatever he holds dear will someday be considered foolish, and that person he loves best in the world will misunderstand him.

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

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