One may gain one truth at the expense of another.

The creative personality never remains fixed on the first world it discovers. It never resigns itself to anything.

It is easy to love and there are so many ways to do it.

... America is the greatest humiliator in existence. It is always cultivating the power you get from humiliating others.

I often see how you sob over what you destroy, how you want to stop and just worship; and you do stop, and then a moment later you are at it again with a knife, like a surgeon.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.