Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!

A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.

profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.

Her face ... was a one-of-a-kind, a surprising variation on a familiar theme - a variation that made observers think, Yes - that would be another very nice way for people to look. What Beatrice had done with her face, actually, was what any plain girl could do. She overlaid it with dignity, suffering, intelligence, and a piquant dash of bitchiness.

To whom it may concern: It is springtime. It is late afternoon.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.