It began to drizzle rain and he turned on the windshield wipers; they made a great clatter like two idiots clapping in church.
A man of sixty has spent twenty years in bed and over three years in eating.
Kindness is universal. Sometimes being kind allows others to see the goodness in humanity through you. Always be kinder than necessary.
Even now I remember those pictures, like pictures in a storybook one loved as a child. Radiant meadows, mountains vaporous in the trembling distance; leaves ankle-deep on a gusty autumn road; bonfires...
Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the fu...
Those who are truly grateful are deeply moved by the privilege of living.
I need to stop running back to you in my mind all the time.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I want to put a ding in the universe.
If your success is not amazing to your critics, it disturbs, infuriates, and frustrates them, and if they're not careful; may go hang themselves and go to hell.
There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.