Now you know how badly someone wanted you, Charley. Children forget that sometimes. They think of themselves as a burden instead of a wish granted.
The secret to happiness...be satisfied and be grateful.
All who are born are always dying.
The more you defend a lie, the angrier you become.
One withers, another grows.
The years after graduation hardened me into someone quite different from the strutting graduate who left campus that day headed for New York city, ready to offer the world his talent. The world, I discovered. was not all that interested.