It was like the good gone times when we still believed in summer hotels and the philosophies of . popular songs.

And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.

[A]t three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.

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.

He saw she was lying but it was a brave lie. They talked from their hearts—with the half truths and evasions peculiar to that organ, which has never been famed as an instrument of precision.

It takes a genius to whine appealingly.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer—the charm of women and the courage of men.

The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before.

But sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them—their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest—that would he like a blind man willing to see.