“Hard writing makes easy reading.”

“It is the beginning of wisdom when you recognize that the best you can do is choose which rules you want to live by, and it's persistent and aggravated imbecility to pretend you can live wit...”

“Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.”

“Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.”

“No life goes past so swiftly as an eventless one, no clock spins like a clock whose days are all alike.”

“We have been cut off, the past has been ended and the family has broken up and the present is adrift in its wheelchair. ... That is no gap between the generations, that is a gulf. The elemen...”

“There must be some other possibility than death or lifelong penance ... some meeting, some intersection of lines; and some cowardly, hopeful geometer in my brain tells me it is the angle at...”