The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

The world will be saved by one or two people.

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use