Our desires have a way of getting bigger with our incomes.
It is better to be drunk with loss and to beat the ground, than to let the deeper things gradually escape.
There is danger in courage. Cowardice is a power for good. We hardly know what it prevents.
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
charm should be on the surface. It has no hidden use.
At a certain point my novels set. They set just as hard as that jam jar. And then I know they are finished.