She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

"God, am I like the rest after all?" — So he used to think starting awake at night — "Am I like the rest?"

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once.

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist, but in the ability to start over.