There ain't no sin and there ain't no virtue. There's just stuff people do.

Sometimes a man wants to be stupid if it lets him do a thing his cleverness forbids.

For every man in the world functions to the best of his ability, and no one does less than his best, no matter what he may think about it.

It’s all fine to say, “Time will heal everything, this too shall pass away. People will forget”—and things like that when you are not involved, but when you are there is no passage of time, people do not forget and you are in the middle of something that does not change.

A strange species we are, We can stand anything God and nature can throw at us save only plenty. If I wanted to destroy a nation, I would give it too much, and I would have it on its knees, miserable, greedy, sick. --John Steinbeck to Adlai Stevenson

All great and precious things are lonely.

If you are in love-that's a good thing-that's about the best thing that can happen to anyone.