Quotes by Beck

“The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process of marriage that it seemed to celebrate a mystic...”

“So she is pretty and he is rich. No doubt society will judge it an excellent match. I know my father does thus a woman he found intolerable for his son is in turn found ideal for his associate. str...”

“Written on her tombstone: "I told you I was sick.”

“Everyone is guilty at one time or another of throwing out questions that beg to be ignored, but mothers seem to have a market on the supply. "Do you want a spanking or do you want to go to bed?" Do...”

“We are gods with anuses.”

“Laughter rises out of tragedy when you need it the most, and rewards you for your courage.”

“A grandmother pretends she doesn't know who you are on Halloween.”

“When humor goes, there goes civilization.”

“Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.”

“I always thought old age would be a writers best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memorys gone, all the old fluency...”

“Which came first, the mind or the idea of the mind? Have you never wondered? They arrived together. The mind is an idea.”

“Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”

“You must go on.I cant go on.Ill go on.”

“It is suicide to be abroad. But what it is to be at home, ... what it is to be at home? A lingering dissolution.”

“In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?”

“Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.”

“Reason may be employed to support faith as well as to destroy it.”

“Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything.”

“Tom felt his darkness. His father was beautiful and clever, his mother was short and mathematically sure. Each of his brothers and sisters had looks or gifts or fortune. Tom loved all of them passi...”

“Silence make the real conversations between friends. Not the saying, but the never needing to say that counts.”