The past is never dead. It's not even past.
I will never lie again.
Most men are a little better than their circumstances give them a chance to be.
I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie
Really the writer doesn't want success. . . . He knows he has a short span of life, that the day will come when he must pass through the wall of oblivion, and he wants to leave a scratch on that wall - Kilroy was here - that somebody a hundred, or a thousand years later will see.
I am not one of those women who can stand things.