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.

- James Gould Cozzens

In the present, every day is a miracle.

- James Gould Cozzens

When you can, always advise people to do what you see they really want to do. Doing what they want to do, they may succeed; doing what they don't wan…

- James Gould Cozzens

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 sens…

- James Gould Cozzens

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.

- James Gould Cozzens

There never could be a man so brave that he would not sometime, or in the end, turn part or all coward; or so wise that he was not, from beginning to…

- James Gould Cozzens

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…

- James Gould Cozzens

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

- James Gould Cozzens

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

- James Gould Cozzens