Quote #21623
The American ideal is youth — handsome, empty youth.
Quote #2885
Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety...
Quote #5273
Almost nobody dances sober, unless they happen to be insane.
Quote #32036
Life improves slowly and goes wrong fast, and only catastrophe is clearly visible.
Quote #17161
Our tendency to create heroes rarely jibes with the reality that most nontrivial problems...
Quote #28822
Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come...
Quote #9137
She is a friend of my mind… The pieces I am, she gather them...
Quote #34714
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do...
Quote #9600
Beauty fades; dumb is forever.
Quote #27791
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former...