"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."

"She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it."

"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."

"She was bored. She loved, had capacity to love, for love, to give and accept love. Only she tried twice and failed twice to find somebody not just strong enough to deserve it, earn it, match it, but even brave enough to accept it."

"The saddest thing about love, Joe, is that not only the love cannot last forever, but even the heartbreak is soon forgotten."

"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life."

"A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid."

"Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself."

"I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time."

"You don’t love because: you love despite; not for the virtues, but despite the faults."