None of us suffers as much as we should, or loves as much as we say. Love is the first lie; wisdom the last.

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.

Ah, music, " he said, wiping his eyes. "A magic beyond all we do here!

A beautiful dress may look beautiful on a hanger, but that means nothing. It must be seen on the shoulders, with the movement of the arms, the legs, and the waist.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

For some heroes, nothing is impossible

The inner chambers of the soul are like the photographer's darkroom. Like a laboratory. One cannot stay there all the time or it becomes the solitary cell of the neurotic.

An interim report - that is what an autobiography is.

The message of guidance that neither politics nor philosophy nor religion now seems able to provide, we look for in modern literature.

I've been to too many Dead concerts. There've been smokin' holes where my memory used to be.

Presently we pass to some other object which rounds itself into a whole as did the first; for example, a well-laid garden; and nothing seems worth doing but the laying~out of gardens.

For a thinking man is where Wisdom is at home.