Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.

And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.

No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

There is respect for law, and then there is complicity in lawlessness.

If you want to avoid heated arguments, never discuss religion, politics, or whether the toilet paper roll should go over or under.

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really don't get it and/or don't really care.

I feel things in quite an intense way. I'm not actually the most intense person.

I've learned it's a human responsibility to create fun, not just wait for it.

He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation.

Ive been more single than not in my short life.

I want to check the record books and see how many fathers and daughters have won Grammys together.