The things I believed in dont exist any more. It's foolish to pretend that they do. Western Civilization finally went up in smoke in the chimneys at Dachau but I was too infatuated to see it. I see it now.

It is personal. That's what an education does. It makes the world personal.

The night sky lies so sprent with stars that there is scarcely space of black at all and they fall all night in bitter arcs and it is so that their numbers are no less.

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

There is no forgiveness. For women. A man may lose his honor and regain it again. But a woman cannot. She cannot.

If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man. What other creatures could? And is the race of man not more predacious yet?

Goodness will find the little boy. It always has. It will again.