 The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young. |
| In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day. |
| The victor belongs to the spoils. |
| You can stroke people with words. |
| No decent career was ever founded on a public. |
| There are no second acts in American lives. |
| The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs. |
| The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter. |
| Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind. |
| I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside. |
| Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end. |
| Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. |
| The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness. |
| When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up. |
| What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? |
| You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say. |
| Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction. |
| It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before. |
| Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. |
| For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming. |
