I saw my bulky person in the windows of the passing storefronts and wondered, when will that man there find himself to be loved?

We can all of us be hurt, and no one is exclusively safe from worry and sadness.

I thought, When a man is properly drunk it is as though he is an a room by himself--there is a physical, impenetrable separation between him and his fellows.

I will never be a leader of men, and neither do I want to be one, and neither do I want to be led. I thought: I want to lead only myself.

You put a wage behind something, it gives the act a sort of respectability.

It is hard to find a friend,' I said. 'It is the hardest thing in this world,' he agreed.

Luck was something you either earned or invented through strength of character. You had to come by it honestly; you could not trick or bluff your way into it.