Genius consists not in making great discoveries, but in seeing the connection between small discoveries.

It is not a bad thing to settle for the Little Way, not the big search for the big happiness but the sad little happiness of drinks and kisses, a good little car and a warm deep thigh.

Ooooh," Kate groans, Kate herself now. "I'm so afraid." "I know." "What am I going to do?" "You mean right now?" "Yes." "We'll go to my car. Then we'll drive down to the French Market and get some coffee. Then we'll go home." "Is everything going to be all right?" "Yes." "Tell me. Say it." "Everything is going to be all right.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

Joy and sadness come by turns.

Consciously cultivate the ordinary.

In a word, the consumer of mass culture is lonely, not only lonely, but spiritually impoverished.