Believing in Hell must distort every judgement on this life.
Whom the gods wish to destroy they first call promising.
Boys do not grow up gradually. They move forward in spurts like the hands of clocks in railway stations.
Only by avoiding the beginning of things can we escape their end.
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.
A mistake which is commonly made about neurotics is to suppose that they are interesting. It is not interesting to be always unhappy, engrossed with oneself, malignant and ungrateful, and never quite in touch with reality.