Only two things are real to me: my love and my death. In between them, I merely exist as a scatter of senses.

To think of losing is to lose already.

It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The fatal flaw of gravity; when you are down, everything falls down on you.

Spring is strictly sentimental, self-regarding; but I burn more careless in the autumn bonfire.

Inflation is the senility of democracies.

cooking is the most succulent of human pleasures.

One cannot overestimate the power of a good rancorous hatred on the part of the stupid. The stupid have so much more industry and energy to expend on hating. They build it up like coral insects.

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity.

Idleness is righteous if it is comfortable. Uncomfortable idleness is sin & sinful waste.

No, I do not weep at the world. I'm too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Maybe a person is just made up of a lot of people, " I say. "Maybe we're accumulating these new selves all the time.

Can anything be less cool than defending the motion picture academy?

I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.

A rower knows the underlying presence that moves a boat; it is quite simply force and energy. The force needs to be penetrating, and the energy needs to be driving and uninhibited.

I see the world for what it is, beyond the white and the black.

There are some things a girl never forgets, Ry. And one of those is a kiss from the right guy

We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.

I remember, especially like when I was in high school, going to see like Dawn of the Dead and it was like mayhem in the theater and you could barely even watch the movie. It was so fun.

All it takes is one idea to solve an impossible problem.