Solitude is a condition best enjoyed in company.

Love cannot be reduced to a catalogue of reasons why, and a catalogue of reasons cannot be put together into love.

for Pop, who sees the starsand Jude, who hears their music

He liked lonely places, because he never really felt alone.

Suffering, he thought later, could rob a man of his empathy, could turn him selfish, could make him depreciate all other sufferers.

We observe that one of the great attributes of discretion is that it can mask ignorance of all the most common and lowly varieties, and Walter Moody was nothing if not excessively discreet.

I wish to be able to call myself deserving of my lot, ' Moody said carefully. 'Luck is by nature underserved.

Pritchard was lonely, and like most lonely souls, he saw happy couples everywhere.

What an unrequited love it is, this thirst! But is it love, when it is unrequited?

Nothing is so lovely as a quietly snoring dog and some evening Brahms, as you sit in a comfortably overstuffed chair with your feet on the footstool.

We ought to read daily.

To know how to dissimulate is the knowledge of kings.

Do not pass between two brahmanas, between a brahmana and his sacrificial fire, between a wife and her husband, a master and his servant, and a plough and an ox.

I think it's natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.

But if the Chinese mainland, the PRC, attacked Taiwan, we'd be obligated to come to their aid.

It's not the style that motivates me, as much as an attitude of openness that I have when I go into a project.

I think guys are afraid of being too straightforward, so sometimes being coy gets you nowhere.

I'm not hurt. I'm pissed off and sexually frustrated.

Anyone who hears enough laughter and applause at a young age will become an actor, whether they intend to or not.