People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.