You'll do what you think you want to do, or what you think you ought to do. If you're very lucky, luckier than anybody I know, the two will coincide.
We are fossils in the making.
The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
You married me...but you didn't marry what you could make out of me.