I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

Why should all life be work, when we all can borrow. Let's think only of today, and not worry about tomorrow.

Maybe other people's ideas of us are truer than our own.

Experience teaches you how to do things you never want to do again.

There's nothing on earth to do here but look at the view and eat. You can imagine the result since I do not like to look at views.

Nobody has ever been able to experience what they have thoroughly understood - or understand what they have experienced until they have achieved a detachment that renders them incapable of repeating the experience.

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.