It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones.

I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning.

You've been put on the world to love the act of being alive.