I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others – young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that register earthquakes ten thousand miles away.
Can’t repeat the past? …Why of course you can!
The dreamers are the saviors of the world. As the visible world is sustained by the invisible, so men, through all their trials and sins and sordid vocations, are nourished by the beautiful visions of their solitary dreamers.
It wasn’t until I had become engaged to Miss Piano that I began avoiding her.
Well, someone slap my butt and give me a hero cookie.
I joined the military to go to foreign places and meet erotic people.
Egotist, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.
Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.
I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
Every summer Lin Kong returned to Goose Village to divorce his wife, Shuyu.
Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.