The state of the health of the individual is equivalent to the state to the health of the colon.
Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.
Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.
People hear what they want and expect to hear, not what is said.
If infinity is as they describe it, all things are not just possible but in the end certain.
The desire for self-expression afflicts people when they feel there is something of themselves which is not getting through to the outside world.
When today's young woman says she isn't a feminist what she means is she isn't a lesbian and she doesn't hate men, she likes to wear make-up and she enjoys a laugh. In which she is no different from many an early feminist.
The biggest mistake you can make is listening to people who've given up on their dreams telling you to give up on yours.
When two friends part they should lock up each other's secrets and exchange keys. The truly noble mind has no resentments.
Everything we know, we learned from someone else!
There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.