Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Silences have a climax, when you have got to speak.

When you love someone all your saved up wishes start coming out.

Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.

Some people are molded by their admirations, others by their hostilities.

We are minor in everything but our passions.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

Fate is not an eagle, it creeps like a rat.

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

Disappointment tears the bearable film off life.

People always kept moving, her mother had said, it's the American way. Moving west, moving south, marrying up, marrying down, getting divorced - but moving...

Scars can mark you for greatness.

Landing on the shores of normalcy is wonderful, especially after being tossed around in the sea of sickness.

I wondered about my inner child. In fact, I was troubled. Did I even have an inner child, I asked myself, given that, in essence, I’d just been born?

It's so freeing, it's beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there's nowhere to go but up.

Small pitchers have wyde eares.

Contentment is a state of the heart, not a state of affairs.

The man who cannot occasionally imagine events and conditions of existence that are contrary to the causal principle as he knows it will never enrich his science by the addition of a new idea.

Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance

Of old the expert in battle would first make himself invincible and then wait for his enemy to expose his vulnerability.