When we love each other we are immortal and indestructible like the heartbeat and the rain and the wind.

Love should not be polluted with friendship.

The best way to lose a woman was to show her a kind of life that one could offer her for only a few days.

One lost easiest what one held in one’s arms— never what one left.

the invisible storehouse in nothingness, called memory.

There is no guilt in feelings ever.

One always expects something else.

A neat little apartment with a neat little bourgeois life. A neat little security on the edge of the abyss. Do you really see that?

Better to be slapped with the truth than kissed with a lie.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

By faithfully working eight hours a day you may eventually get to be boss and work twelve hours a day.

Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you and in the end you are sure to succeed.

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

I can't help thinking the failed New York bomber would've done far more damage if he'd simply driven throught Times Square in a Toyota.

I live for those who love me, for those who know me true, for the heaven so blue above me, and the good that I can do.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

Is it possible to be totally partial?

It was very sad, he thought. The things men carried inside. The things men did or felt they had to do.