Never say you are five feet nine when you are five feet eight and a half" was the first one I encountered. Another was, "Always say some prayers at night because it might turn out that there is a God.

It was demeaning to scrape affection from virtually everyone you encountered. That was immature.

The best teaching I ever experienced was at Exeter. Yale was a distinct letdown afterward.

I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.

I did no know everything there was to know about myself, and knew that I did not know it.

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.