Jonathan Lethem Quotes

Good times don't last long sometimes.

The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.

You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.

Enjoy it while it lasts.

At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

I just enjoy the ride while I have it.

My birthday is Feb. 11, and I'm both excited and not excited by it. You'll never be 15 again, and you really, really need to savor every day like it's your last.

Seek not, my soul, the life of the immortals; but enjoy to the full the resources that are within thy reach.

Everyone sort of sees his own life and times as being ephemeral. One thinks that everything good or important that happened, happened in the past. But I think that seeing scenes that you are used to, but with the heightening effects of poetry, perhaps makes you value your life and times more than you might otherwise do.

Life is the game that must be played, this truth at least, good friends, we know; so live and laugh, nor be dismayed as one by one the phantoms go.

It's sad to know I'm done. But looking back, I've got a lot of great memories.

I always knew that 'Growing Pains' was not going to go on forever. I remember thinking, 'I'm going to enjoy every moment of this.'

A night out isn't just chaos and hedonism. It can be beautiful as well and there's a sadness to the end of it.

I always said, 'If it's over, it's over.' If modeling is over, it's still the best experience of my life.

Everything ends, people move on, they don't look back. It's how they should be.

Standing here, in this quiet house where I can hear the birds chirping out back, I think I’m kind of getting the concept of closure. It’s no big dramatic before-after. It’s more like that melancholy feeling you get at the end of a really good vacation. Something special is ending, and you’re sad, but you can’t be that sad because, hey, it was good while it lasted, and there’ll be other vacations, other good times.

The last laugh, the last cup of coffee, the last sunset, the last time you jump through a sprinkler, or eat an ice-cream cone, or stick your tongue out to catch a snowflake. You just don't know.

They would think she was savoring the taste (blueberries, cinnamon, cream-excellent), but she was actually savoring the whole morning, trying to catch it, pin it down, keep it safe before all those precious moments became yet another memory.

It was fun, but it's over now. This is how things go.

Saki says that youth is like hors d'oeuvres: you are so busy thinking of the next courses you don't notice it. When you've had them, you wish you'd had more hors d'oeuvres.

When I have plucked the rose, I cannot give it vital growth again, It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree.

Moments are so fleeting; I want to hold on to the good ones.

When it's all over, it'll seem like a dream.

But life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last.

This is why true beauty never strikes us directly. The setting sun is beautiful because of all it makes us lose.