A man is whole only when he takes into account his shadow.

There's something evil in me that loves evil and degradation--purity's black backside! That loves honesty with a horrid love; or why have I always gone seeking it at the liar's door?

Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Only the impossible lasts forever.

I have been loved,' she said, 'by something strange, and it has forgotten me.

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy.

My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that.