Facts always are sensational.
Happiness can only be found if you can free yourself of all other distractions.
There is today an extraordinary interest with the data of modern experience per se. Our absorption in our contemporary historical state is very high right now. It's not altogether unlike a similar sit...
The truth is we've not really developed a fiction that can accommodate the full tumult the zaniness and crazed quality of modern experience.
The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.
You never know what forms self-respect will take, especially with people whose rules of life are few.
With one long breath, caught and held in his chest, he fought his sadness over his solitary life. Don't cry, you idiot! Live or die, but don't poison everything...
To tell the truth I never had it so good. But I lacked the strength of character to bear such joy.
The lesson of an American life like my father's... is that achievements are compatible with decency (112).
One must bear in mind the odd angle or slant that the rays of love have to take in order to reach a heart like mine.
I pretended not to understand. One of life's hardest jobs, to make a quick understanding slow. I think I succeeded, thought Herzog.
All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.
The flesh would shrink and go, the blood would dry, but no one believes in his mind of minds or heart of hearts that the pictures do stop.
Guys like you make life easy for some women.
There are evils that have the ability to survive identification and go on for ever... money, for instance, or war.
Well, don't build me up so, and you won't have to tear me down.
We never learn anything, never in the world, and in spite of all the history books written. They’re just the way we plead or ague with ourselves about it, but it’s only light from the outside that we’...
To him, perpetual thought of death was a sin. Drive your cart and your plow over the bones of the dead.
The wheels of the cars stormed underneath. Woods and pastures ran up and receded, the rails of sidings sheathed in rust, the dipping racing wires, and on the right the blue of the Sound, deeper, stron...
People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.