The surest cure for vanity is loneliness. - Thomas Wolfe

So, then, to every man his chance—to every man, regardless of his birth, his shining, golden opportunity—to every man the right to live, to work, to be himself, and to become whatever thing his manhood and his vision can combine to make him — this, seeker, is the promise of America.

His enemy was time. Or perhaps it was his friend. One never knows for sure.

He who lets himself be whored by fashion will be whored by time.