It is impossible to say why people put so little value on complete happiness.

I can only miss the true and I can only mourn the brave. Cowards make it easy to let go because you're not losing anything worth having.

I am convinced the longer I live that life and its blessings are not so entirely unjustly distributed as when we are suffering greatly we are inclined to suppose.

The most memorable people in life will be the friends who loved you when you weren’t very lovable.

Do not bandy words with your father, nor treat him as a dotard, nor reproach the old man, who has cherished you, with his age.

In the end, it's always a single person who makes change. But I do think we should try to send artists out into the world and not have them all stick together in the big cities.

I never know when I finish the novel I am writing which will be the next novel out of the station.

A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that's subtraction.

All of them are men, not a girl amongst them unless you count Tommy Falk because his lips are so pretty.

Usually, the energy in elevators is so awkward; I mean, I cant imagine the politics in the ones in the Conde Nast building.

Emotion is energy in motion.