Henry Birnbaum

“In his forty-third year William Stoner learned what others, much younger, had learned before him: that the person one loves at first is not the person one loves at last, and that love is not an end but a process through which one person attempts to know another.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“I've said it before and I say it again: "A man's got to do what a brainless idiot's got to do.”
― Henry Rollins, Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag

“In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning.”
― George Orwell