In a real dark night of the soul, it is always thr...

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders.

Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

I saw how many people were poor and how many kids my age went to school hungry in the morning, which I don't think most of my contemporaries in racially segregated schools in the South thought very much about at the time.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.