All men are boys time is trying to outsmart.
men thetimes time
It was one of history's great love stories, the mutually profitable romance which Hollywood and bohunk America conducted almost in the dark, a tapping of fervent messages through the wall of the San Gabriel Range.
history tso-love
Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.
experience
The essential self is innocent, and when it tastes its own innocence knows that it lives for ever.
innocence self
The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.
religion self
There was a beauty here, refined from country pastures, a game of solitariness, of waiting, waiting for the pitcher to complete his gaze toward first base and throw his lightning, a game whose very taste, of spit and dust and grass and sweat and leather and sun, was America.
beauty game games
He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.
pain system
The inner spaces that a good story lets us enter are the old apartments of religion.
religion
Until the 20th century it was generally assumed that a writer had said what he had to say in his works.
work
Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadows.
men purpose slavery
Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
poetry
Yes, there is a ton of information on the web, but much of it is egregiously inaccurate, unedited, unattributed and juvenile.
information
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
life wisdom
To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.
purpose
His insides are beginning to feel sickly. The pain of the world is a crater all these syrups and pills a thousandfold would fail to fill.
pain