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Family, like arsenic, works best in small doses...unless you prefer to die.
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Growing up, I was a kid pretending to be an adult.
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Don't hoard the past. Don't cherish anything. Burn it. The artist is the phoenix who burns to emerge.
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I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love.
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The marines gave me an eternal discipline.
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I've often been the guy who doesn't get the girl.
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Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.
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why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet ...
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Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.
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I must go deeper and even stronger into my treasure mine and stint nothing of time, toil, or torture.
