A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on.
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
The false religion of lust is baser than the false religion of mother-love or patriotism or art: but lust is less likely to be made into a religion.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
Flushed with his impassioned gibberish, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.
I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
One time he killed a man who had found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.
He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it.
I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes.
When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen
We live for our unfulfilled dreams when we are alive. Our fulfilled dreams live for us when we are gone!
One of the critical factors that make people’s dreams become nightmares is that they don’t know there is a cost to be paid!
Thoughts are roots; Words are leaves; Actions are fruits! Every success tree has all working normally!
Big dreams are marathons. Passionate actions are marathons of marathons! Waiters don't deserve it; Quitters don't get it!
You destruct the attention the world gives you when you mistrust your own ability
