"I can still stand on life's narrowest..." - Quote by Friedrich Nietzsche

“The enjoyment that all morality has given us to now and that it continues to give us--and so, what has kept it going up to now--lies in everyone's right, without lengthy investigation, to praise and blame. And who could endure life without praising and blaming!”

“A life without music is an error.”

“Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most.”

“When I was in boy scouts, I slipped on the ice and hurt my ankle. A little old lady had to help me across the street.”

“I wear my heart on my sleeve.”

“Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope.”

“I complain a lot. That's one way of coping. But I'm in a profession where nobody tells you to quit. No board of other partners tells you it's time to get your gold watch, and no physical claim is made on you like an athlete or an actress. So I try to plug along on the theory that I can still do it. I still keep trying to produce prose, and some poetry, in the hope that I can find something to say about being alive, this country, but generally the human condition.”

“Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.”

“Wisdom will never let us stand with any man on an unfriendly footing. We refuse sympathy and intimacy with people, as if we waited for some better sympathy or intimacy to come. But whence and when: Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself while we are preparing to live.”