As often as not our whole self...engages itself in the most trivial of things, the shape of a particular hill, a road in the town in which we lived as children, the movement of wind in grass. The things we shall take with us when we die will nearly all be small things.

Lord, if there is a heartache Vienna cannot cure I hope never to feel it. I came home cured of everything except Vienna.

You can't argue with a raging want. You can, but it is useless.

A joke is a joke or the image of a truth.

Only one person in a thousand knows the trick of really living in the present.

There is a stage in any misery when the victim begins to find a deep satisfaction in it.

If you think with enough energy about a hoped-for event, it will in the end happen. Not because you willed it. Because it was all the time in your nature.