A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow as well as himself - and what is a man's shadow but his upright astonishment?

A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

I am not a critic; to me criticism is so often nothing more than the eye garrulously denouncing the shape of the peephole that gives access to hidden treasure.

Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.

I talk too much because I have been made so miserable by what you are keeping hushed.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Our bones ache only while the flesh is on them.

New York is the meeting place of the peoples, the only city where you can hardly find a typical American.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

Fifty years, " I hackneyed, "is a long time.""Not when you're looking back at them, " she said. "You wonder how they vanished so quickly.

The devil will do everything to get you disappointed in God

We all just need to be real. That is what will save us.

Giving up is the ultimate tragedy.

Speak what you think today in words as hard as cannon balls and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again though it contradict everything you said today.

I guess they just took it for granted that that was what I was interested in and let nature take its course.

I do not want to carry any public position.

The English think soap is civilization.

November, I'll give thanks that you belong to me. December, you're the present beneath my Christmas tree.

I have no doubt in mind that I justify the space I take up in the world.