... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.

the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.

our deeds have even less substance than we ourselves.

one pities most those who loved, and still died. Only those who love, dread death.

Bad enough to make mistakes, without going ahead and marrying them.

It is less difficult to look beyond ... and foretell the future, than to look back and remember what has already gone before.

it's been my experience that while impossible things happen frequently, improbable ones never do.

things never seem as bad as they are.

It is possible to wish so greatly for the unattained that in time you believe it has been won - indeed, you can even remember the winning of it.

There is something more dangerous than the death of one’s body. It is “the undiscovered self”

Why are some things harder to lose than others? because of love, of course. The more you love something the harder it is to lose.

The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school.

If you don't ask for what you need, the need will keep getting bigger.

Why is there such passion for any sort of gossipy, provocative sensual stuff? It sells!

To make a beautiful piece means you have really witnessed it and really made decisions about it.

So long as it stays within the rules of the game, which is to say, engages in open and free competition without deception or fraud.

Live your life and forget your age.

No man has greater confidence than I have in the spirit of the people, to a rational extent. Whatever they can, they will.

Humility is a necessary veil to all other graces.