I, too, am beginning to feel an immense need to become a savage and create a new world.

Why is it so painful to watch a person sink? Because there is something unnatural in it, for nature demands personal progress, evolution, and every backward step means wasted energy.

Life is not so idiotically mathematical that only the big eat the small; it is just as common for a bee to kill a lion or at least to drive it mad.

Now I know the full power of evil. It makes ugliness seem beautiful and goodness seem ugly and weak.

if you are afraid of loneliness, don't get married

What is economics? A science invented by the upper class in order to acquire the fruits of the labor of the underclass

It is terribly hard to be married, harder than anything. I think one has to be an angel.