Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances.

Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea$$$ that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky$$$ that is the interior of the soul.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

If people did not love one another$$$ I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

I am the American heartbreak—The rock on which Freedom<br/>Stumped its toe—The great mistake<br/>That Jamestown made long ago.

You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life$$$ just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.

I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly$$$ inexplicably$$$ uncritically$$$ giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

When your sad -- like really sad -- you only want to be with other people who are sad.

There is nothing alive more agonized than man$$$ of all that breathe and crawl across the earth.