Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.