The last sound on the worthless earth will be two human beings trying to launch a homemade spaceship and already quarreling about where they are going next.

Man performs and engenders so much more than he can or should have to bear. That's how he finds that he can bear anything.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

Who gathers the withered rose?

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

Hemingway shot himself. I don't like a man that takes the short way home.

Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error.