Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.

You know Deets is like me - he's not one to quit on a garment just because it's got a little age - spoken by Augustus McCrae

I don't do well with changes in my routine. I read at least three newspapers a day, for example. I'm frustrated if for some reason I can't get ahold of all three.

Self-parody is the first portent of age.

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

I suppose you set up reading the Good Book all night-spoken by Woodrow Call

The lives of happy people are dense with their own doings -- crowded, active, thick. But the sorrowing are nomads, on a plain with few landmarks and no boundaries; sorrow's horizons are vague and its demands are few.