To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Vigorous writing is concise.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.