Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
People living alone get used to loneliness.
Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.
The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun.
Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions.
The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want.
To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.
Ours was a generation grown up to find all gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.
Everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment, 'It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.
Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us.
Happiness is only the first hour after the alleviation of some, especially intense misery.
There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
Courage is a sort of insistence on the value of life and the worth of transient things.
Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.
Human sympathy has its limits.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be.
