Helene

“He felt singularly light-hearted, and the immediate cause was his safety razor. A week ago he had bought the thing in a sudden fit of enterprise, and now he shaved in five minutes, where before he had taken twenty, and no longer confronted his fellows, at least one day in three, with a countenance ludicrously mottled by sticking-plaster.”
― John Buchan, Huntingtower

“To spend your days on such work when the world is chockful of amusing things. Life goes roaring by and you only hear the echo in your stuffy rooms.”
― John Buchan, The Power House

“We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves.”
― John Buchan

“You've got
some 'Star-Spangled'
nails
in your coffin, kid.
That's what
they've done for you,
son.”
― Richard Brautigan