His father watched him across the gulf of years and pathos which always must divide a father from his son.

In the mornings when they were in the city, they had breakfast on a card table in Jeffrey's study

If you have one strong idea, you can't help repeating it and embroidering it. Sometimes I think that authors should write one novel and then be put in a gas chamber.

I hope that I am as broadminded as others, and you have always seen a decanter of wine on the table.

I know a fellow who's as broke as the Ten Commandments.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

It's crazy. My life has been full of fun and adventure. but i love meeting people who make me feel like I've done nothing.

You have to acknowledge evil, or you give it too much power over you.

There is nothing Tourettic about the New York City subways.

And there must be simple substances, because there are compounds; for the compound is nothing but a collection or aggregatum of simples.

When a shadow flits across the landscape of the soul where is the substance?

Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody got tired of her.

I see not a step before me as I tread on another year;But I've left the Past in God's keeping,-the FutureHis mercy shall clear;And what looks dark in the distance may brighten as I draw near.

Your own destiny, create your own recipe.

Going back into the negative past to find happiness is like trying to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear