I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

Maybe I shall never achieve happiness, but one thing I have had - the terrible wisdom of love.

I remember being very smart, which is a form of stupidity. I try not to remember it, but it occurs to me that I may have felt intellectual. I entertained views too noble or too bitter to be true. I must have done some soul-stretching of my mental neck.

if one's natural feelings are suppressed long enough one develops supernatural feelings and feels surer of having a soul.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

war is a ferocious form of insanity. Nothing can justify it.

... to be human is to be on the defensive, somewhere, somehow.