It's worth your life to order an omelette in most restaurants. You never know what you're going to get.

Clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?

Champagne does have one regular drawback: swilled as a regular thing a certain sourness settles in the tummy, and the result is permanent bad breath. Really incurable.

I loved her enough to forget myself, my self pitying despairs, and be content that something she thought happy was going to happen.

Writing in the first person automatically gives you a point of view.

It's bad enough in life to do without something YOU want; but confound it, what gets my goat is not being able to give somebody something you want THEM to have.

I used to spend all of my time projecting. I was never in the moment. It was always tomorrow or next week or two months from now. That was one of the reasons I always had this sense of anxiety.