Any society's upper-crust is riddled with immorality, how else d'you think they keep their power? Reputation is king of the public sphere, not private. It is dethroned by public acts.

Beyond the Indian hamlet, upon a forlorn strand, I happened on a trail of recent footprints.

Writing is probably one-fifth coming up with the stuff, and four-fifths self-editing again and again and again.

I’m scared of the future. I’m scared of the past. I’m nervous at the moment.

Little girls are like old cats. If they don't like you nothing on Earth will make them pretend to.

I have always unswervingly held, that God, in our civilizing world, manifests Himself not in the miracles of biblical age, but in progress. It is progress that leads humanity up the ladder towards the God-head. No Jacob's ladder this, no, but rather Civilization's Ladder, if you will.

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.