“i've never believed in anything or anybody that needed constant praise.”
“Conceited people never hear anything but praise.”
“Vain men never hear anything but praise.”
“Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)”
“Sometimes Webb believed that he would never experience a better feeling than when he was looking at her, would never see anything or anybody bursting with more life and spirit. Sometimes he felt he needed to inhale it and place it in a storage area in his soul. Just in case. ”
“"But you're the toughest son of a b!&€# i've ever seen.You never let anybody get near you.You never let anybody know what you really think.”