The gain in self-confidence of having accomplished a tiresome labour is immense.
It is within the experience of everyone that when pleasure and pain reach a certain intensity they are indistinguishable.
The moment you're born you're done for.
You can turn over a new leaf every hour if you choose.
The people who live in the past must yield to the people who live in the future. Otherwise the world would begin to turn the other way round.
Saw Washington Monument. Phallic. Appalling. A national catastrophe.