What can a man do to move along in some kind of grace through his days and years?

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

Chance acquaintances are sometimes the most memorable, for brief friendships have such definite starting and stopping points that they take on a quality of art, of a whole thing, which cannot be broken or spoiled.

Be grateful for yourself...be thankful.

I have managed to conceal my madness fairly effectively, and as far as I know it hasn't hurt anybody badly, for which I am grateful.

What a people talk about means something. What they don't talk about means something.

When I began to wait to live I really began to wait to die.