How do I know what I have to say wntil I see what I have said?

The crime of suicide lies rather in its disregard for the feelings of those whom we leave behind.

They had nothing in common but the English language.

My law-givers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul.

Most of life is so dull that there is nothing to be said about it, and the books and talk that would describe it as interesting are obliged to exaggerate, in the hope of justifying their own existence.

There lies at the back of every creed something terrible and hard for which the worshipper may one day be required to suffer.

It comes to this then: there always have been people like me and always will be, and generally they have been persecuted.