Louis Auchincloss Quotes
Keep doing good deeds long enough, and you'll probably turn out a good man in spite of yourself.
A neurotic can perfectly well be a literary genius, but his greatest danger is always that he will not recognize when he is dull.
We were not as rich as the Rockefellers or Mellons, but we were rich enough to know how rich they were.
A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.
The only thing that keeps a man going is energy. And what is energy but liking life?
Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.
A common objection to inherited wealth is that it stifles the urge to work. I have not generally observed this to be true.
Buechner is a worthy member of the great prose stylists: Pascal, Newman, and Merton, who have harnessed their art to a passionate religious faith.
Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.
Decent artists go through bad times but eventually they do get recognized. It's by no means a battle lost. Yet.
I think Shakespeare got drunk after he finished King Lear. That he had a ball writing it.
If you can sense the corruption in me, it is ... because there's a dose of it in you.
