The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you.

I know all about the tyranny of women.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

They chatter together like birds on Cypress Hill, but all they say is 'Live, live, live, live, live!' It's all they've learned, it's the only advice they can give.

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks.

I don't mean what other people mean when they speak of a home, because I don't regard a home as a...well, as a place, a building...a house...of wood, bricks, stone. I think of a home as being a thing that two people have between them in which each can...well, nest.