James Gould Cozzens Quotes

In the present, every day is a miracle.

A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.

The innocent supposition, entertained by most people, that even if they are not brilliant, they are not dumb, is correct only in a very relative sense.

Real rebels are rarely anything but second rate outside their rebellion; the drain of time and temper is ruinous to any other accomplishment.

Bailey might not have great intelligence or abilities, but his whole aim, thought and study was that of the born leader—to look out for himself; and he did it with that born-leader's confidence and intensity that draws along the ordinary uncertain man, who soon confuses his own interest and his own safety with that of the leader.

I can't read ten pages of Steinbeck without throwing up.

Be virtuous and you'll be happy Nonsense Be happy and you'll begin to be virtuous.

I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.

The first test of ability and intelligence is to find a field of endeavor in which profits are large and risks small.