A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. |
A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again. |
As for death one gets used to it, even if it's only other people's death you get used to. |
If a dog doesn't put you first where are you both? In what relation? A dog needs God. It lives by your glances, your wishes. It even shares your humor. This happens about the fifth year. If it doesn't happen you are only keeping an animal. |
In marriage there are no manners to keep up, and beneath the wildest accusations no real criticism. Each is familiar with that ancient child in the other who may erupt again. We are not ridiculous to ourselves. We are ageless. That is the luxury of the wedding ring. |
It’s not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart. |
Judges don't age; time decorates them. |
Judges don't age; time decorates them. |
The great and terrible step was taken. What else could you expect from a girl so expectant? 'Sex,' said Frank Harris, 'is the gateway to life.' So I went through the gateway in an upper room in the Cafe Royal. |
The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age -- what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff. |
The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name. |
When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much. |
Who wants to become a writer? And why? Because it's the answer to everything. To ''Why am I here?'' To uselessness. It's the streaming reason for living. To note, to pin down, to build up, to create, to be astonished at nothing, to cherish the oddities, to let nothing go down the drain, to make something, to make a great flower out of life, even if it's a cactus. |
Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that. |
Yes, I do touch. I believe that everyone needs that. |