I don't think an opera house is ever a place that can make you entirely happy.
It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.
Happiness writes in white ink on a white page.
A single nation that has succeeded in lowering the intelligence, the morality, the quality of the human race almost throughout the globe is a phenomenon never before experienced since the beginning of time. I accuse the United States of being in a constant state of crime against humanity.
Catholicism has made man stupid, but it has not degraded him; it has introduced as many good and beautiful things as bad things. The United States have simply degraded humanity. Catholicism has done less harm in two thousand years than the United States in two hundred.
I have only the idea I have made of myself to sustain me on oceans of nothingness
Most affections are habits or duties we lack the courage to end.
I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.
Most of the beauties of travel are due to the strange hours we keep to see them
The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness.