James Gould Cozzens Quotes

In the present, every day is a miracle.

Because in fact I only lived to write, see no sense in life, have only forced "interests," wish every night, not urgently but quite definitely I could just not wake up tomorrow.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to end, part ass if you knew where to look; or so good that nothing at all about him was despicable.

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't want to do, they won't

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.