Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
Like so many other nerdy, disaffected young people of that time, I dreamed of becoming an 'artist', i. e. , somebody whose adult job was original and creative instead of tedious and dronelike.
If your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything.
I think it's easy to stop smoking; it's just hard not to commit a felony after you stop.
You don't have to think very hard to realize that our dread of both relationships and loneliness. . . has to do with angst about death, the recognition that I'm going to die, and die very much alone, and the rest of the world is going to go merrily on without me.
I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.
Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.
…books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you. ' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life.
Think. Don't just swing. Think about the pitcher, what he threw you last time up, his best pitch, who's up next. Think.
It's very hard to dramatise something factual and not make it look overdone, but also not to make it look so under-dramatised that it's dull.
The forgotten men and women of America will be forgotten no longer.