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.

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.

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.

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

Making and thinking about somebody is special... you go in the tracks of saying that you are horrible and not anymore special.

It is a mournful thing to know that you are utterly isolated among millions of human beings; that not a drop of your blood flows in any other veins.

Judaism to me, as badly as I practiced it, what I've always loved about it was its total embrace of complexity, its admission of unknowability.

Everything breaks; the only things that last are things you're willing to fix.

The guitar is my favorite and the one, I guess, I'm best at. But I play enough of the different instruments to be able to write with them and to, hopefully, to make myself look impressive on stage.

Im not really into the whole lyrics thing; I just like to make music that people like to listen to.

A great city is a great solitude.

In Europe democracy is a falsehood. I do not know where it will end, but it cannot end in a quiet old age.

Whoever has done good in the main has spirit-energy that is pure and clear when death comes.

There are women who have completely transformed my view of fashion.