1. “There’s no sight on earth more appealing than that of woman making dinner for someone she loves.”
2. “Making the world safe for hypocrisy.”
3. “Make your mistakes, take your chances, look silly, but keep on going. Don’t freeze up.”
4. “A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.”
5. “I have to see a thing a thousand times before I see it once.”
6. “You have reached the pinnacle of success as soon as you become uninterested in money, compliments or publicity.”
7. “There is one voyage, the first, the last, the only one.”
8. “Is this not the true romantic feeling; not to desire to escape life, but to prevent life from escaping you.”
9. “Man is born to live to suffer, and to die, and what befalls him is a tragic lot. There is no denying this in the final end. But we must deny it all along the way.”
10. “The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence.”
11. “Each moment is the fruit of forty thousand years. The minut-winning days, like flies, buzz home to death, and every moment is a window on all time.”
12. “Culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.”
13. “America – it is a fabulous country, the only fabulous country; it is the only place where miracles not only happen, but where they happen all the time.”
14. “Peace fell upon her spirit. Strong comfort and assurance bathed her whole being. Life was so solid and splendid, and so good.”
15. “Loneliness is and always has been the central and inevitable experience of every man.”
