Being an adult means accepting those situations where no action is possible.

In the morning I'm often anti-semantic.

The only thing in the world worth a damn is the strange, touching, pathetic, awesome nobility of the individual human spirit.

Integrity is not a conditional word. It doesn't blow in the wind or change with the weather. It is your inner image of yourself, and if you look in there and see a man who won't cheat, then you know he never will.

I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

You have to start knowing yourself so well that you begin to know other people. A piece of us is in every person we can ever meet.

This was not some pretty little girl, coyly flirtatious, delicately stimulated. This was the mature female of the species, vivid, handsome and strong demanding that all the life within her be matched. Her instinct would detect any hedging, any dishonesty, any less than complete response to her - and then she would be gone for good.