The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness