What was so terrible about grief was not grief itself, but that one got over it.
Wars may be fought by decent men, but they're not won by them.
There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.
Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.
Authors always take rejection badly. They equate it with infanticide.
If our sex life were determined by our first youthful experiments, most of the world would be doomed to celibacy. In no area of human experience are human beings more convinced that something better can be had only if they persevere.