Strength and success; they are above morality, above criticism. It seems then, that it is not what you do, but how you do it and what you call it.

A man so painfully in love is capable of self-torture beyond belief.

It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.

There is comfort in routine.

If we could learn even a little to like ourselves, maybe our cruelties and angers might melt away.

I like a lot of talk in a book and I don't like to have nobody tell me what the guy that's talking looks like. I want to figure out what he looks like from the way he talks.

You stay out here a little while, an' if you smell any roses, you come let me smell, too.