Amy Joy

What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

You don’t need a pack of wild horses to learn how to make a sandwich.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.

The only normal people are the ones you don’t know very well.

Very jaded and tired and depressed and cross…Must fill my mind with air and light, and walk and blanket it in fog.

Well, I’m not sure what pop psychology is, but I don’t like it.

Every damn thing you do in this life, you have to pay for.

When we are through, we shall have reproduced American life as lived; and that, I think is the best way of preserving at least a part of our history and tradition.

Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware.

Little difficulties are made to swell until they fill our horizon while the real big blessings of life are dwindled down to nothing.

There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.