The Bible diagnoses the cancer of all cancers and prescribes the cure of all cures.
I didn’t mind the quiet stretches. It was like we were trying out the idea of being side by side.
But I loved George in part because he believed me; because if I stood in a cold, plain room and yelled FIRE, he would walk over and ask me why.
When the light at Vernon turned green, we stepped into the street and George grabbed my hand and the ghosts of our younger selves crossed with us.
I want to be violated by insight.
I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.
We're all getting too smart. Our brains are just getting bigger and bigger, and the world dries up and dies when there's too much thought and not enough heart.
He whose first emotion, on the view of an excellent work, is to undervalue or depreciate it, will never have one of his own to show.
I don't know whether I could visit a new neighborhood now and have a kid's set of observations about a place. I no longer can really think like a child, though I can remember thinking like one.
On the roads of failure, it is not uncommon to see the tears of the talented; and in the land of success, to hear the victorious screams of the incompetent!
He comic page is dying; I didn't want to go with it.