When in doubt, choose greatness.

Optimism and self-pity are the positive and negative poles of modern cowardice.

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are; like fishes not meant to swim.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learned to walk.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.

The only way for writers to meet is to share a quick peek over a common lamp-post.