Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

there is no fanatic like a religious fanatic.

I've got an uncle myself. Nobody should be held responsible for their uncles. Nature's little throwbacks - that's how I look at it.

Speech ... is an invention of man's to prevent him from thinking.

Oh, no, I'm not brave. When a thing is certain, there's nothing to be brave about. All you can do is to find your consolation.

Writing is a great comfort to people like me, who are unsure of themselves and have trouble expressing themselves properly.