There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning.

A living is made, Mr Kemper, by selling something that everybody needs at least once a year.Yes, sir! And a million ismade by producing something that everybody needs every day.You artists produce something that nobody needs at any time.

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.

People are meant to go through life two by two. ’Tain’t natural to be lonesome.

Everybody's talking about people breaking into houses but there are more people in the world who want to break out of houses.

He regarded love as a sort of cruel malady through which the elect are required to pass in their late youth and from which they emerge, pale and wrung, but ready for the business of living.

That's the advantage of having lived sixty-five years. You don't feel the need to be impatient any longer.