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.

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.

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.

Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.

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.

The eyes were larger and gray and in a certain light looked soft, gentle, and even innocent. Then the light would change, the innocence would vanish, and the eyes looked like year-old ice.

What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days.

My fans are pretty normal, they are always really nice and polite, and they don't interrupt my meals.

If we did not have pride, we would not complain of it in others.

I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat.

Lighten up while you still can, don't even try to understand. Just find a place to make your stand, and take it easy.

For me, the term "literary fiction" means there's always attention paid to language, and linguistic experimentation, sophistication.

My brother is my best friend and nothing is stronger than family.

I'm very career-driven, so my focus and my energy has been into that.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals