Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.

The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.

Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.