The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

The difficulty about all this dying, is that you can't tell a fellow anything about it, so where does the fun come in?

You must remember that a woman, by nature, needs much less to feed upon than a man, a few emotions and she is satisfied.

Truly nothing is to be expected except for the unexpected.

Though I have no productive worth, I have a certain value as an indestructible quantity.

Physical pain however great ends in itself and falls away like dry husks from the mind, whilst moral discords and nervous horrors sear the soul.

If I can get on to my sofa and occupy myself for four hours, at intervals through the day, scribbling my notes, and able to read the books that belong to me, in that they clarify the density, and shape the formless mass within, life seems inconceivably rich.