If I broke her heart, her image of me would break too

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Life is just one small piece of light between two eternal darknesses.

I need you, the reader, to imagine us, for we don't really exist if you don't.

I am sufficiently proud of my knowing something to be modest about my not knowing all.

Don't cry, I'm sorry to have deceived you so much, but that's how life is.

Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished masterpiece

You have to be an artist and a madman...

I discovered there was an endless source of robust enjoyment in trifling with psychiatrists.

... she had painted her lips and was holding in her hollowed hands a beautiful, banal, Eden-red apple.

For some reason, I kept seeing it—it trembled and silkily glowed on my damp retina—a radiant child of twelve, sitting on a threshold, "pinging" pebbles at an empty can.

No neurotic harbors thoughts of suicide which are not murderous impulses against others redirected upon himself.

True biblical love is sacrificing, purifying, nurturing, and enduring.

The formula for success is simple: practice and concentration then more practice and more concentration.

I don't watch it, but I know enough to comment on it.

When it was over, it was not really over, and that was the trouble.

If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?

I used to be able to slim down just by exercising more, but that's changed.

The real gift of gratitude is that the more grateful you are, the more present you become.

We've made progress in our country, and it's been the Constitution that permitted that to happen.