Aleppo is a disaster. It's a humanitarian nightmare.
Trees and children are, of all living things, those whose growth soonest makes one feel one's age.
I detest so much. . . those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.
I have still the best comforts of life - books and friendships - and I trust never to lose my relish for either.
Enthusiasm is very catching, especially when it is very eloquent.
I prepare myself for all disappointments by expecting nothing.
Fashion is a capricious deity.
I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached out and caught me in midair. That something is what I define as love. It is the one thing that can stop a man from falling, powerful enough to negate the laws of gravity.
Life as Hunter Thompson's mother was no weenie roast.
We, peopling the void air, make gods to whom we impute the ills we ought to bear.
She didn't know that there was more of me, she'd have to learn to love all four of me.