Look at that moon. Potato weather for sure.

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.

Life is an unbroken succession of false situations.

The best thing about animals is they don't talk much.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

People a thousand years from now - this is the way we were in the provinces north of New York at the beginning of the 20th century. This is the way we were: in our growing up and in our marrying and in our living and in our living and in our dying.

If a man has no vices, he is in great danger of making vices about his virtues, and there's a spectacle.