A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged.

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.

I cannot imagine any boy of spirit who would not be delighted to play a drunkard even to vomiting in front of his Sunday school. Indeed, the vomiting might be the chief attraction of the role.

The world is full of people whose notion of a satisfactory future is, in fact, a return to the idealized past.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

A man must be obedient to the promptings of his innermost heart.

Art is wine and experience is the brandy we distill from it.

Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence.

The dog is a yes-animal. Very popular with people who can't afford a yes man.

April is the cruelest month, breedinglilacs out of the dead land, mixingmemory and desire, stirringdull roots with spring rain.

It’s probably unfair to expect the world at large, or even most people, to see us for all we are. It is essential, however, that we see ourselves for all we are. (413)

My sleeping pill is white. It is a splendid pearl; it floats me out of myself, my stung skin as alien as a loose bolt of cloth.

The mind's job is to validate what it thinks.

For me, the big chore is always the same: how to begin a sentence, how to continue it, how to complete it.

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

If (my grandfather) hadn't left, I'd be working over here at the Albatross Company.

Many people tell me what I ought to do and just how I ought to do it, but Few have made me want to do something.

A man has need of tough ears to hear himself fairly judged.

All tragedies are finished bya death, All comedies are ended bya marriage; The future states of both are left to faith.