The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.
Thinking and planning is one side of life; doing is another. A man cannot bedoing all the time.
The street lamps glowed like ripe oranges among the bare boughs. Below in the wet street their globes glimmered down and down, to drown in their own reflections.
The car whispered up the slope and nosed quietly out above the trees. He was driving like a careful insult.
Kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.
The essence of wisdom is to know when to be doing, and when it's useless even to try
Well, what was luck for if it was never to be tempted?
Used every man according to his capacity.
