A sense of humor judges one's actions and the actions of others from a wider reference. It pardons shortcomings, it consoles failure.

Choose the least important day in your life. It will be important enough.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.

Art is not only the desire to tell one's secret; it is the desire to tell it and hide it at the same time.

[Camila] was quite incapable of establishing any harmony between the claims of her art, of her appetites, or her dreams, and of her crowded daily routine. Each of these was a world in itself.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Being employed is like being loved: you know that somebody's thinking about you the whole time.