Never underestimate the meanness in people's souls... Even when they're being kind... especially when they're being kind.

There were people whom you positively ached to please. If you failed with such people they would put you into a category in their minds where they could kee you and have contempt for you forever.

One drop of hatred in your soul will spread and discolor everything like a drop of black ink in white milk.

I was amazed as people must be who are seized and kidnapped, and who realize that in the strange world of their captors they have a value absolutely unconnected with anything they know about themselves.

I can't play bridge. I don't play tennis. All those things that people learn, and I admire, there hasn't seemed time for. But what there is time for is looking out the window.

Row, row, row your boat. Gently down the stream. Merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.